Michelle Neely

Against Sustainability

Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

Against Sustainability responds to contemporary environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of U.S. environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literature and cultural contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. Chapters explore sustainability, recycling, frugality, preservation, radical pet keeping, zero waste, and utopianism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780823288229
• ISBN-10: 0823288226
• Artikelnr.: 57573834

Autorenporträt

Michelle C. Neely is Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies at Connecticut College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Unlikely Environmentalisms of Nineteenth-Century American
Literature 1
1. Recycling Fantasies: Whitman, Clifton, and the Dream of Compost 21
2. Joyful Frugality: Thoreau, Dickinson, and the Pleasures of Not Consuming
51
3. The Problem with Preservation: Aesthetics and Sanctuary in
Catlin, Parkman, Erdrich, Melville, and Byatt 85
4. Radical Pet Keeping: Crafts, Wilson, and Living with Others in the
Anthropocene 116
Coda. Embracing Green Temporalities: Indigenous Sustainabilities,
Anglo-American Utopias 147
Acknowledgments 157
Notes 161
Bibliography 201
Index 221