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Book SynopsisThis edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocriticism and related fields.
Table of ContentsForeword by Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Editor's introduction
PART I: Discourses of sustainability
1 The millers’ tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill – Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley
2 Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture – John Parham
3 Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality – Kate Rigby
4 Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America – Lucy Bell
5 Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison – Joshua Schuster
6 The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature – Claire Colebrook
PART II: Reading sustainability
7 Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy – Dana Phillips
8 ‘The shadow of the future made all the difference’: sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy – Chris Pak
9 The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods – Adeline Johns-Putra
10 A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an Island – Hannes Bergthaller
11 Jorie Graham’s Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we’re sustaining – Matthew Griffiths
12 Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi – Louise Squire
Index
