Postmodern wetlands : culture, history, ecology / Rodney James Giblett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giblett, Rodney James, author.

Series:

Postmodern theory (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Postmodern theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wetlands--Philosophy.

Wetlands.

Wetland ecology--Philosophy.

Wetland ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Swamps and marshes have traditionally been regarded as places of horror and ill health in western culture - places to be feared, drained and filled. In this wide-ranging study, Rod Giblett examines the swamp from a cross-disciplinary standpoint. Using material from fiction, films and popular culture and drawing on literature, cultural studies, philosophy, social theory, critical geography and medical history, he criticises the urge to drain swamps ('the project of modernity') as masculinist and imperialist.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

NOTE

Acknowledgements

Part I Aesthetics and the Wetlandscape

Part II Cities and Swamps

Part III Bogs and Bodies

Part IV Minds and Marshes

Part V Politics and Wetlands

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-264) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-6844-6

0-585-08701-6