Climate change and the contemporary novel / Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes in literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 186 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction

The ethics of posterity and the climate change novel

The limits of parental care ethics: Cormac McCarthy's The road and Maggie Gee's The ice people

Overpopulation and motherhood environmentalism: Edan Lepucki's California and Liz Jensen's The road

Identity, ethical agency, and radical posterity: Jeanette Winterson's The stone

Gods and Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108427371

1108427375

OCLC:

1040613971