The Literature and Politics of the Environment

Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies.

List of contents

Introduction - John Parham

1.Industry and Environmental Violence in the Early Victorian Novel: Pastoral Re-visions - Mark Frost
2.Floating Cities, Imperial Bodies: Reading Water in Timothy Mo's An Insular Possession (1986) and Xi Xi's 'Strange Tales from a Floating City' (1986) - Caitlin Vandertop
3.Sweet Food to Sweet Crude: Haunting Place through Planet
Sam Solnick
4.Nonhuman Entanglements in Adam Roberts's Science Fiction: Bête (2014) and By Light Alone (2012) - Nora Castle
5.Sum deorc wyrd gathers: Dark Ecology, Brexit Ecocriticism, and the Far Right - Aidan Tynan
6.Literature, Literary Pedagogy, and Extinction Rebellion (XR): The Case of Tarka the Otter - Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
7.The View from the Field: Activist Ecocriticism and Land Workers' Voices - Pippa Marland
8.Nature Walking: Marching Against Privilege - Dominic Head
9.To Be a Witness in the World - Amanda Thomson

Index

Product details

• Assisted by: John Parham (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2023
• EAN: 9781843846970
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-697-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies