The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century CLI-Fi Novels

Rewritings from a Drowning World
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64014-131-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 142 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture

Breaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing their concern with climate change within the wider crises of the Anthropocene.

With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or cli-fi, has become increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a subsection of cli-fi in their own right. This book proposes new readings of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth, Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich, Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy, When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall, and The Flood by Maggie Gee.
Helen E. Mundler's book takes into account the wealth of criticism that has appeared on these texts in recent years, acknowledging important contributions from critics including Adam Trexler, Adeline Johns-Putra, and Astrid Bracke. However, her book's strength is that it takes a new approach, going beyond the topicality of the texts and treating them not just as ideological statements but giving them their due as literary artifacts. While the importance of climate change is beyond debate, this book takes a more balanced approach that places it within a wider context of the multiple crises of the Anthropocene.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mundler, Helen E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: An Odd Sort of Cli-Fi? Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow
2: "Hadn't mankind done it before-started from scratch?" Reinterpreting Visions of Past and Future in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy
3: Watering Down? Clare Morrall's When the Floods Came
4: The Archive and After: A Kaleidoscopic Reading of Maggie Gee's The Flood
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mundler, Helen E
HELEN E. MUNDLER is Associate Professor of English Studies at Université Paris-Est Créteil, France (UPEC).