Against Sustainability : : Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis / / Michelle Neely.
Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings of antebellum and contemporary writers includin...
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Neely, Michelle, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Against Sustainability : Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis / Michelle Neely. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The Unlikely Environmentalisms of Nineteenth- Century American Literature -- 1. Recycling Fantasies: Whitman, Clifton, and the Dream of Compost -- 2. Joyful Frugality: Thoreau, Dickinson, and the Pleasures of Not Consuming -- 3. The Problem with Preservation: Aesthetics and Sanctuary in Catlin, Parkman, Erdrich, Melville, and Byatt -- 4. Radical Pet Keeping: Crafts, Wilson, and Living with Others in the Anthropocene -- Coda. Embracing Green Temporalities: Indigenous Sustainabilities, Anglo- American Utopias -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings of antebellum and contemporary writers including Walt Whitman and Lucille Clifton, George Catlin and Louise Erdrich, and Herman Melville and A. S. Byatt, the book demonstrates that some of our most vaunted strategies to address ecological crisis in fact perpetuate environmental degradation.Yet Michelle C. Neely also reveals that the nineteenth century offers useful and generative environmentalisms, if only we know where and how to find them. Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson experimented with models of joyful, anti-consumerist frugality. Hannah Crafts and Harriet Wilson devised forms of radical pet-keeping that model more just ways of living with others. Ultimately, the book explores forms of utopianism that might more reliably guide mainstream environmental culture toward transformative forms of ecological and social justice. Through new readings of familiar texts, Against Sustainability demonstrates how nineteenth-century U.S. literature can help us rethink our environmental paradigms in order to imagine more just and environmentally sound futures. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) American literature 19th century History and criticism. American literature 20th century History and criticism. American literature 21st century History and criticism. Environmentalism in literature. Human ecology in literature. Nature Effect of human beings on United States. American Studies. Environment. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Antebellum Literature. Anthropocene. Dickinson. Environmentalism. Melville. Nineteenth Century. Preservation. Sustainability. Thoreau. Whitman. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2020 English 9783110704761 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2020 9783110704563 ZDB-23-DSP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110722710 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823288236?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823288236 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823288236/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The Unlikely Environmentalisms of Nineteenth- Century American Literature -- 1. Recycling Fantasies: Whitman, Clifton, and the Dream of Compost -- 2. Joyful Frugality: Thoreau, Dickinson, and the Pleasures of Not Consuming -- 3. The Problem with Preservation: Aesthetics and Sanctuary in Catlin, Parkman, Erdrich, Melville, and Byatt -- 4. Radical Pet Keeping: Crafts, Wilson, and Living with Others in the Anthropocene -- Coda. Embracing Green Temporalities: Indigenous Sustainabilities, Anglo- American Utopias -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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