Postmodern Wetlands : : Culture, History, Ecology / / Rodney Giblett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Giblett, Rodney,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Postmodern Theory : POTH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; NOTE --; Acknowledgements --; Part I Aesthetics and the Wetlandscape --; Part II Cities and Swamps --; Part III Bogs and Bodies --; Part IV Minds and Marshes --; Part V Politics and Wetlands --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474468442; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474468442
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rodney Giblett.

Swamps and marshes have traditionally been regarded as places of horror and ill health in western culture - places to be feared, drained and filled. In this wide-ranging study, Rod Giblett examines the swamp from a cross-disciplinary standpoint. Using material from fiction, films and popular culture and drawing on literature, cultural studies, philosophy, social theory, critical geography and medical history, he criticises the urge to drain swamps ('the project of modernity') as masculinist and imperialist.