Modernism and Its Environments

From the modernist city to issues of energy and waste, Modernism and Its Environments introduces key themes in debates in the environmental humanities and the ways in which they are opening up important new avenues for modernist studies today. Topics covered include: - Urban modernism: from Virginia Woolf's London and Theodor Dreiser's New York to Rudyard Kipling in Lahore - Energy consumption and fuel: from Upton Sinclair's Oil to coal-mining life in Zola, Orwell and Lawrence - The non-human world: from Hemingway and Steinbeck to Wallace Stevens - Waste and pollution: from T.S. Eliot's 'yellow fog' to the art of Marcel Duchamp Each chapter includes a case study exploring modernist environmental issues in greater depth, and the book includes a glossary of key terms and a bibliography of important critical work in the environmental humanities. Modernism and Its Environments is an essential resource for scholars of modernist ecocriticism at all levels.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Neuman, Michael Rubenstein
• Assisted by: Gayle Rogers (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781350076037
• ISBN: 978-1-350-07603-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: New Modernisms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000