Timothy Clark

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of the arguments in environmental criticism, first published in 2011.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9780521896351
• ISBN-10: 0521896355
• Artikelnr.: 32312339

Autorenporträt

Timothy Clark is Professor of English at Durham University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: the challenge
Part I. Romantic and Anti-Romantic: 1. Old World Romanticism
2. New World Romanticism
3. Genre and the ethics of nonfiction
4. Language beyond the human?
5. The inherent violence of Western thought?
6. Posthumanism and the 'end of nature'
Part II. The Boundaries of the Political: 7. Thinking like a mountain?
8. Environmental justice and the move 'beyond nature writing'
9. European eco-justice
10. Liberalism and Green moralism
11. Ecofeminism
12. 'Postcolonial' eco-justice
13. Questions of scale: the local, the national and the global
Part III. Science and the Struggle for Intellectual Authority: 14. Science and the crisis of authority
15. Science studies
16. Evolutionary theories of literature
17. Interdisciplinarity and science: two essays on human evolution
Part IV. The Animal Mirror: 18. Ethics and the nonhuman animal
19. Anthropomorphism
20. The future of ecocriticism
Further reading
Index.