Sarah Daw

Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

First book-length ecocritical study of Cold War American literatureCompelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry by authors including Paul Bowles, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Mary McCarthy reveals the prevalence of portrayals of Nature as an infinite, interdependent system in American literature written between 1945 and 1971. Daw astutely highlights the Cold War's often overlooked role in environmental history and argues that Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) can be considered as part of a trend of increasingly ecological depictions of Nature in literature written after 1945. By exploring the most recent developments in the field of ecocriticism, the book is embedded within current ecocritical debates concerning the Anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change. Key FeaturesContains five case studies of six Cold War writers: Paul Bowles, Peggy Pond Church, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Mary McCarthy Offers an in-depth exploration of the influences behind each writer's presentation of NatureShows the Cold War to be a time of seismic change in the human's relationship to the environment, and demonstrates the degree to which this inflects Cold War literatureEngages with the most recent developments in the field of ecocriticism, which drive the study's analytical methodology and embed the book within current ecocritical debates

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474430050
• Artikelnr.: 54260059

Autorenporträt

Sarah Daw is currently Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the Department of English at University of Bristol. She has a chapter, 'The "dark ecology" of the Bomb: Writing the Nuclear as a part of "Nature" in Cold War American Literature' in Dark Nature: Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and Culture, ed. Richard J. Schneider (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ecocriticism and the Mid-Twentieth Century
Chapter 1. Attaining fana in Paul Bowles's Infinite Landscapes
Chapter 2. Nature and the Nuclear Southwest: Peggy Pond Church and J.
Robert Oppenheimer
Chapter 3. The Influence of Chinese and Japanese Literature on J. D.
Salinger's Philosophy of Nature
Chapter 4. The Beat Ecologies of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
Chapter 5. Bifurcated Nature in Mary McCarthy's Birds of America
Conclusion: 'Know that the Earth will Madonna the Bomb'
Index