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Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture

Hardback

Main Details

Title Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Adeline Johns-Putra
Edited by John Parham
Edited by Louise Squire
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary essays
Literature - history and criticism
Environmentalist thought and ideology
Sustainability
ISBN/Barcode 9780719099670
ClassificationsDewey:820.9
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations 8 black & white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 16 August 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students in literary and environmental studies, this collection brings together twelve essays by leading and up-coming scholars on the theme of literature and sustainability. In today's sociopolitical world, sustainability has become a ubiquitous term, yet one potentially driven to near meaninglessness by the extent of its usage. While much has been written on sustainability in various domains, this volume sets out to foreground the contributions literary scholarship might make to notions of sustainability, both as an idea with a particular history and as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live. Essays in this volume take a range of approaches, using the tools of literary analysis to interrogate sustainability's various paradoxes and to examine how literature in its various forms might envisage notions of sustainability. -- .

Author Biography

Adeline Johns-Putra is Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey John Parham is Principal Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Worcester Louise Squire is an Independent Scholar -- .