Cities and wetlands : : the return of the repressed in nature and culture / / Rod Giblett.

• Superior document: Environmental cultures series
• VerfasserIn: Giblett, Rodney James,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental cultures series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington. "--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Table of Contents

pt. 1. Beginnings -- part 2. European cities and wetlands -- part 3. North American cities and wetlands -- part 4. More beginnings.