Global History of Literature and the Environment

This book offers a wide-ranging international history of environmental writing from ancient Mesopotamian and Asian works to the present.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

John Parham is Associate Head of Research and Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts at the University of Worcester. He has written Green Media and Popular Culture: An Introduction (2016) and Green Man Hopkins: Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination (2010), edited The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (2002) and has co-edited Literature and Sustainability: Exploratory Essays (forthcoming). He has published extensively on Victorian ecology (including studies of Dickens, Mill, Gaskell and Zola) and green popular culture.Louise Westling taught in the English Department at the University of Oregon from 1977 to 2015 and in the Environmental Studies Program from 1996 to 2015. Her publications include Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor (1985); The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction (1996); The Logos of the Living World: Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language (2013); and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (Cambridge, 2013).

Zusammenfassung

This book is for an international audience concerned about environmental crisis. It shows how writers across the world have explored the human place in the natural world and environmental change since the earliest civilizations. Chapters discuss climate change, human relations with plants and animals, ecosystem destruction and environmental politics.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: John Parham (Herausgeber), Louise Westling (Herausgeber), Parham John (Herausgeber), Westling Louise (Herausgeber), John (University of Worcester) Parham (Herausgeber), Louise (University of Oregon) Westling (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: EDITED BY JOHN PARHA, John (University of Worcester) Westling Parham
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.2016
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie
• EAN: 9781107102620
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10262-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 459
• Themen: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literary studies: general; Literary theory