{"product_id":"interrogating-boundaries-of-the-nonhuman-literature-climate-change-and-environmental-crises-9781666903768","title":"Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity’s path forward in the company of nonhuman others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ranging from the nineteenth century to contemporary climate change fiction and embracing a variety of literary genres and geographical contexts, the essays in this collection offer a wide gamut of perspectives on how literature may probe nonhuman ways of being in the world and question anthropocentric assumptions. The collection positions debates on literature and climate change within a longer history of Western thinking on the nonhuman—a provocative and valuable move in today's scholarly landscape. Engaging with themes including animal experience, nuclear anxieties, and environmental activism, the authors convincingly show that literature is no mere illustration of posthumanist ideas but that its very form can perform philosophical tensions and positions in transformative ways.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Marco Caracciolo, Ghent University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Past Narratives of Environmental Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Peculiar Associations of Melville’s “Encantadas”: Nature and National Allegory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristen R. Egan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Making a Difference? Richard Jefferies’ After London, E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” and Climate Change Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Tait\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Stories of “Being-with” Other Animals: A Case of Humans and Horses \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Trachsel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Witnessing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Animal Texts: How Coyote America and American Wolf Embody the Literary Animal Through A Cross-Disciplinary Approach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren E. Perry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Beautiful and Sublime: Embracing Otherness in Mary Oliver’s Ecopoetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnastasia Cardone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Sea’s Witness: Narration, Texturisation and Reader Responsibility in Rachel Carson’s Oceanalia \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren O’Mahony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Nonhuman Agency\/Representation of the Nonhuman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Posthuman Return: Transformation through Stillness in Richard Powers’s The Overstory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOwen Harry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Classifying Monsters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVera Veldhuizen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: “‘There isn’t Anything that isn’t Political.’ It’s an Expression that Sounds Human, but Everything in Her Voice Indicates that She is Not’: The Nonhuman Subject as Decolonising Trope in Ellen Van Neervan’s ‘Water’” (2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClare Archer-Lean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Mutation and Post-Apocalypse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: “We’ve Made Meat for Everyone!:” The Ideology of Distinction and Becoming Flesh in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Joseph D’Lacey’s Meat \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Hind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: “There would be monsters, some hopeful”: Viral Agencies and Mutational Posthuman Politics in Post-Millennial Science Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClare Wall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: “A Reign of Community and Harmony”: Envisioning a Multispecies Society in a Post-Nuclear World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tavella:\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041998438743,"sku":"9781666903768","price":79.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666903768.jpg?v=1750952550","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interrogating-boundaries-of-the-nonhuman-literature-climate-change-and-environmental-crises-9781666903768","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}