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

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culturePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019Description: xi, 186 sidor illustrationer 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108427371
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.60936 23/swe
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.
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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.