Risk criticism : : precautionary reading in an age of environmental uncertainty / / Molly Wallace.
'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. 'Risk Criticism: Reading i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, [2016]. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) :; PDF, digital file(s). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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| Summary: | 'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. 'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists re-set its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953. What pushed its hands was, however, not just the threat of nuclear weapons, but also other global environmental risks that the Bulletin judged to have risen to the scale of the nuclear, including climate change and innovations in the life sciences. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472900671 9780472121694 9780472073023 9780472053025 0472121693 0472900676 0472073028 0472053027 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Molly Wallace. |