Climate change and the contemporary novel

by Johns-Putra, Adeline

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Title Statements

Full title :Climate change and the contemporary novel / Adeline Johns-Putra (University of Surrey).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 186 pages : : illustration ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108427371, 1108427375
oclc:on1090426453
LC Classification:PS374.C555
Dewey Decimal:813/.60936

Introduction -- The ethics of posterity and the climate change novel -- The limits of parental care ethics: Cormac McCarthy's The road and Maggie Gee's The ice people -- Overpopulation and motherhood environmentalism: Edan Lepucki's California and Liz Jensen's The road -- Identity, ethical agency, and radical posterity: Jeanette Winterson's The stone -- Gods and Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army -- Science, utopianism, and ecocentric posterity: Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Science in the capital' and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behaviour -- Conclusion: the sense of no ending.

Subjects

American fiction American fiction -- History and critici… American fiction -- History and critici… Climat -- Changements, dans la littérat… Climatic changes in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Englisch English fiction English fiction -- History and criticis… English fiction -- History and criticis… Klimaänderung Roman Roman américain -- Histoire et critique… Roman américain -- Histoire et critique… Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique -… Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique. …