Risk criticism : precautionary reading in an age of environmental uncertainty / Molly Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Molly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Criticism.

Risk in literature.

Environmental risk assessment.

Risk-taking (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) : PDF, digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. 'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists re-set its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953. What pushed its hands was, however, not just the threat of nuclear weapons, but also other global environmental risks that the Bulletin judged to have risen to the scale of the nuclear, including climate change and innovations in the life sciences.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction. Will the Apocalypse Have Been Now? Literary Criticism in an Age of Global Risk

One. The Second Nuclear Age and Its Wagers: Archival Reflexions

Two. We All Live in Bhopal? Staging Global Risk

Three. Discomfort Food: Analogy and Biotechnology

Four. Letting Plastic Have Its Say

or, Plastic's Tell

Five. The Port Radium Paradigm

or, Fukushima in a Changing Climate

Afterword. Writing "The Bomb": Inheritances in the Anthropocene

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.

CC BY

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ISBN:

9780472121694

0472121693

9780472073023

0472073028

OCLC:

956520419