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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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