Cities and wetlands : the return of the repressed in nature and culture / Rod Giblett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giblett, Rodney James, author.

Series:

Environmental cultures series.

Environmental cultures series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography and literature.

Wetlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington. "--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

pt. 1. Beginnings

part 2. European cities and wetlands

part 3. North American cities and wetlands

part 4. More beginnings.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

ISBN:

9781474269858

1474269850

9781474269841

1474269842

9781474269834

1474269834

OCLC:

1166560666

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access