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This edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocriticism and related fields.

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Author:   Adeline Johns-Putra ,  John Parham ,  Louise Squire
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9780719099670

ISBN 10:   0719099676
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   16 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Gillen D’Arcy Wood Editor's introduction PART I: Discourses of sustainability 1 The millers’ tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill – Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley 2 Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture – John Parham 3 Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality – Kate Rigby 4 Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America – Lucy Bell 5 Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison – Joshua Schuster 6 The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature – Claire Colebrook PART II: Reading sustainability 7 Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy – Dana Phillips 8 ‘The shadow of the future made all the difference’: sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy – Chris Pak 9 The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods – Adeline Johns-Putra 10 A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an Island – Hannes Bergthaller 11 Jorie Graham’s Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we’re sustaining – Matthew Griffiths 12 Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi – Louise Squire Index -- .

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Adeline Johns-Putra is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey. John Parham is Principal Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Worcester. Louise Squire is an Independent Scholar

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