In recent decades, the challenge of rapid climate change has forced us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel examines the ways in which today's literature engages with four different environmental narratives: the pastoral, the urban, the polar and climate change. Bringing ecocriticism into dialogue with a new body of contemporary writing, Astrid Bracke explores a wide range of texts, from Zadie Smith's N/W through Ian...
In recent decades, the challenge of rapid climate change has forced us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to cha...
