| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (203 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Unlikely Environmentalisms of Nineteenth-Century American Literature -- 1. Recycling Fantasies: Whitman, Clifton, and the Dream of Compost -- 2. Joyful Frugality: Thoreau, Dickinson, and the Pleasures of Not Consuming -- 3. The Problem with Preservation: Aesthetics and Sanctuary in Catlin, Parkman, Erdrich, Melville, and Byatt -- 4. Radical Pet Keeping: Crafts, Wilson, and Living with Others in the Anthropocene -- Coda. Embracing Green Temporalities: Indigenous Sustainabilities, Anglo-American Utopias. |
| Summary |
Against Sustainability responds to contemporary environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of U.S. environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literature and cultural contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. Chapters explore sustainability, recycling, frugality, preservation, radical pet keeping, zero waste, and utopianism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Environmentalism in literature.
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Human ecology in literature.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. |
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American literature |
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Environmentalism in literature |
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Human ecology in literature |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
| Chronological Term |
1800-2099 |
| Indexed Term |
Antebellum Literature. |
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Anthropocene. |
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Dickinson. |
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Environmentalism. |
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Melville. |
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Nineteenth Century. |
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Preservation. |
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Sustainability. |
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Thoreau. |
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Whitman. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Reading nineteenth-century America in the age of climate crisis |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Neely, Michelle. Against Sustainability : Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2020 |
| ISBN |
0823288218 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823288212 (electronic bk.) |
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0823288234 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823288236 (electronic bk.) |
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