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Climate change and the contemporary novel, Adeline Johns-Putra

Label
Climate change and the contemporary novel, Adeline Johns-Putra
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Climate change and the contemporary novel
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Adeline Johns-Putra
Series statement
Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture
Table Of 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
Classification
Content