Neely Against Sustainability

Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8823-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neely, Michelle

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. The Unlikely Environmentalisms of Nineteenth-Century American Literature 1

1. Recycling Fantasies: Whitman, Clifton, and the Dream of Compost 21

2. Joyful Frugality: Thoreau, Dickinson, and the Pleasures of Not Consuming 51

3. The Problem with Preservation: Aesthetics and Sanctuary in
Catlin, Parkman, Erdrich, Melville, and Byatt 85

4. Radical Pet Keeping: Crafts, Wilson, and Living with Others in the Anthropocene 116

Coda. Embracing Green Temporalities: Indigenous Sustainabilities, Anglo-American Utopias 147

Acknowledgments 157

Notes 161

Bibliography 201

Index 221

Über Autor(innen)

Neely Michelle:
Michelle C. Neely is Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies at Connecticut College.Michelle C. Neely is Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies at Connecticut College.