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Subject(s)

• American literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Environmentalism in literature [Browse]
• Human ecology in literature [Browse]
• Nature—Effect of human beings on—United States [Browse]
• American literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• American literature—21st century—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

Fordham scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'Against Sustainability' responds to 21st century environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of US environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. In readings that juxtapose antebellum and contemporary writers such as Walt Whitman and Lucille Clifton, George Catlin and Louise Erdrich, and Herman Melville and A.S. Byatt, the text reconnects sustainability, recycling, and preservation with 19th century US contexts such as industrial farming, consumerism, slavery, and settler colonial expansion.

Notes

This edition previously issued in print: 2020.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2020).

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.

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ISBN

• 0-8232-9030-1
• 0-8232-8821-8

OCLC

1154558140

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