An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature : From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie / by R. Marzec.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marzec, Robert P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature.

America--Literatures.

America.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Geography.

European Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

World Literature.

North American Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Regional Geography.

Local Subjects:

European Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

World Literature.

North American Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Regional Geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how we relate to the earth and conceive of ourselves as human.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Enclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: Notes toward an Ontology of Land; Chapter Two: The Territorialization of Land; Chapter Three: Problematizing Enclosure in Eighteenth-Century English Literature; Chapter Four: Inhabiting Land in the Age of Empire: Twentieth-Century Literature; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611362669

9781281362667

1281362662

9780230604377

0230604374

OCLC:

192096662