Climate Change and The Contemporary Novel /
Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973-
Climate Change and The Contemporary Novel / Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey. - xi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9781108427371 (hardback)
2018024050
Climatic changes in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
PS374.C555 / J64 2019
813.60936 JOH
Climate Change and The Contemporary Novel / Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey. - xi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9781108427371 (hardback)
2018024050
Climatic changes in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
English fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
PS374.C555 / J64 2019
813.60936 JOH