The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries

ISBN-13: 9780367077211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str.

Katie Ritson

Opis

This book shows how the fragile landscapes around the North Sea have served as bellwethers for environmental concern both now and in the recent past. It looks at literary sources drawn from the countries around the North Sea  from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

Spis treści

Introduction. On the Edge of the North Sea  1. Against the Tide: Living with the North Sea  2. Conquest and Control: Engineering the Anthropocene on the North Sea  3. A Sense of Place in the Anthropocene: W.G. Sebald and East Anglia  4. Landscape as Palimpsest: East Anglia in British "New Nature Writing"  5. Causeways to the Past: Anthropocene and Memory in Contemporary Novels  6. Under the North Sea: Petrospectral Futures  Conclusion. The Literary Imagination in the Environmental Humanities

O autorze

Katie Ritson is Managing Editor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich.