Adeline Johns-Putra (University of Surrey)

Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

The growing number of contemporary climate change novels tend to frame global warming in terms of our relationship to our children and the generations to come. Johns-Putra investigates how such fiction might help us to better understand our ethical responsibilities to the future in a time of great ecological peril.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427371
• ISBN-10: 1108427375
• Artikelnr.: 53020157

Autorenporträt

Adeline Johns-Putra is Reader in English Literature at the School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey. She is the author of Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (2001) and The History of the Epic (2006). She is also the editor of Process: Landscape and Text (2010) and Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The ethics of posterity and the climate change novel; 2.
The limits of parental care ethics: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Maggie
Gee's The Ice People; 3. Overpopulation and motherhood environmentalism:
Edan Lepucki's California and Liz Jensen's The Road; 4. Identity, ethical
agency, and radical posterity: Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods and
Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army; 5. Science, utopianism, and ecocentric
posterity: Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Science in the Capital' and Barbara
Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour; Conclusion: the sense of no ending.