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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.

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/06/2020
      ISBN13: 9780823288205, 978-0823288205
      ISBN10: 082328820X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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

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