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Climate Change and The Contemporary Novel / Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019Description: xi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108427371 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.60936 JOH 23
LOC classification:
  • PS374.C555 J64 2019
Contents:
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.
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Reference Book VIT-AP Reference Reference 813.60936 JOH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Hard Bound Not For Loan ENG 024422
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It include index pages

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-179) and index.

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.

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