Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy

Green Modernism (eBook, PDF)

Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, and Butts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137526045
• Artikelnr.: 43976574

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy is the Director of the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. "The Land's Way is Important in This Story": Environmental Criticism in
Modernist Studies
2. "A Choice of Nightmares": Nature and the Modern Mind in
3. Conrad's Weather: The Politics of Ecology in
4. 1928 and Nature: Ruralism and Regeneration in and
5. Mary Butts and England's Nature: Modernist Georgic, Authentic
Englishness and the Consolations of Dwelling
6. "Pan in America," Modernism, and Material Nature

Rezensionen

"In Green Modernism, McCarthy offers various ethical models for the dialogic and equalizing relationship of humans and nature, from a fundamental recognition of nature's active and independent presence (object-oriented ontology), to a responsible and responsive working of the land, to the 'sustained intimacy' with the land he calls 'dwelling.' ... The project of turning modernism's gaze from the psyche and the city to the land is a valuable expansion of traditional criticism." (Mara Scanlon, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 60 (2), 2017)