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Subject(s)

• Ecocriticism [Browse]
• Ecology in literature [Browse]
• Modernism (Literature) [Browse]

Editor

Diaper, Jeremy [Browse]

Summary note

"Eco-Modernism explores the sustained engagement with ecology, environment, and nature in literary modernism. It features a broad range of chapters on key environmental contexts including ruralism and nature, ecological modernisms, modernist eco-poetics, agricultural and horticultural poetics, and climatic modernisms. This timely volume of essays provides an essential resource for students and scholars interested in studying the expanding fields of ecocriticism, modernism, and environmental humanities"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Eco-modernism / Jeremy Diaper
• Modernism and the rural novel / Dominic Head
• Edith Sitwell : modernist experimentation and the revitalization of nature poetry / Elizabeth Black
• "No poetic phantasy / but a biological reality" : the ecological visions of H.D.'S trilogy / Elizabeth O'Connor
• Modernist corpses and the ecology of burial / Julia E. Daniel
• Nature, a diligent artist : an ecocentric reading of Marianne Moore's "The Fish" / Sharla Hutchinson
• Modernism's insect sense / Rachel Murray
• Eco-consciousness and ecopoetics in D.H. Lawrence's Birds, beasts and flowers and apocalypse / Fiona Becket
• Planting, gardens, and organicism in literary modernism / Jeremy Diaper
• "A rose had flowered" : Virginia Woolf and the nature of post-impressionism / Karina Jakubowicz
• "The earth-haunted mind" : Jean Toomer's Cane, African American writing, and ecomodernism / Mary Weaks-Baxter
• "Grain by grain" : Beckett's agripessimism and the anthropocene / Caitlin McIntyre
• "There all the time without you" : Joyce, modernism, and the anthropocene / Peter Adkins.

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ISBN

• 9781949979855 (hardcover)
• 1949979857 (hardcover)

LCCN

2021037977

OCLC

1198219074

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