Green Modernism - Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930

Zusatztext "In Green Modernism! McCarthy offers various ethical models for the dialogic and equalizing relationship of humans and nature! from a fundamental recognition of nature's active and independent presence (object-oriented ontology)! to a responsible and responsive working of the land! to the 'sustained intimacy' with the land he calls 'dwelling.' ? The project of turning modernism's gaze from the psyche and the city to the land is a valuable expansion of traditional criticism." (Mara Scanlon! English Literature in Transition! Vol. 60 (2)! 2017) Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy is the Director of the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at the University of Utah, USA. Klappentext One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism! Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged! historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad! Ford! Lawrence! and Butts. Zusammenfassung One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism! Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged! historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad! Ford! Lawrence! and Butts.

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"In Green Modernism, McCarthy offers various ethical models for the dialogic and equalizing relationship of humans and nature, from a fundamental recognition of nature's active and independent presence (object-oriented ontology), to a responsible and responsive working of the land, to the 'sustained intimacy' with the land he calls 'dwelling.' ... The project of turning modernism's gaze from the psyche and the city to the land is a valuable expansion of traditional criticism." (Mara Scanlon, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 60 (2), 2017)

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349562329
• ISBN: 978-1-349-56232-9
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment; Literatures, Cultures, and the; Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature