The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times

Herausgeber: Milthorpe, Naomi

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Produktbeschreibung

The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times illuminates the ways in which the garden as a real and imagined space, and gardening as a practice or ethic, is changed under extreme conditions of economic and environmental austerity.

Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781498570206
• ISBN-10: 1498570208
• Artikelnr.: 56970612

Autorenporträt

Naomi Milthorpe is senior lecturer in English at the School of Humanities of the University of Tasmania and author of Evelyn Waugh's Satire: Texts and Contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. "Austerity Gardens: The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in
Hard Times." Naomi Milthorpe Roots Chapter 2. "Sissinghurst: A Fantasy of
Austerity" Rebecca Nagel Chapter 3. "Digging Up England: Subverting
Austerity in Beverley Nichols's Merry Hall" Naomi Milthorpe Plots Chapter
4. "Narratives of Nettle: Austerity, Medicinal Flora, and the Herb Garden
as a Locus of Resistance." John Charles Ryan Chapter 5. "Gardening in the
Anthropocene: Wilding, Eco-Memoir and Biodiversity." Jessica White Chapter
6. "Zoological Gardens, Austerity and the Extinction of the 'Last'
Thylacine" Katrina Schlunke and Hannah Stark Paths Chapter 7. "Life on Pig
Row: Living with Austerity." Andrew and Carol Oldham Chapter 8. "A Poetics
of Embodied Gardening" Judy Kendall About the Contributors