Queer environmentality : ecology, evolution, and sexuality in American literature / Robert Azzarello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azzarello, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Environmentalism in literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer and environmental studies, Azzarello's book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Azzarello's study treats four American authors-Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Willa Cather and Djuna Barnes-all of whom problematize conventional notions of the matrix between the human, the natural and the sexual and challenge the assumption that the subject of American environmental literature is essentially heterosexual.

Contents:

Nature and its discontents

Thoreau's queer environmentality

Melville's Apples of sodom

Cather's onto-theology of Oikos

Barnes's queerly Nietzschean nature

The philosophical upshot.

Notes:

"First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4094-7924-2

1-317-07282-0

1-315-60317-9

1-317-07281-2

1-280-57057-1

9786613600172

1-4094-2665-3

9781315603179

OCLC:

779162220