TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johns-Putra,Adeline
TI  - Climate Change and The Contemporary Novel
SN  - 9781108427371 (hardback)
AV  - PS374.C555 J64 2019
U1  - 813.60936 JOH 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Climatic changes in literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - English fiction
N1  - 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
ER  -