{"product_id":"literature-and-sustainability-9780719099670","title":"Literature and Sustainability","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Gillen D’Arcy Wood\u003cbr\u003eEditor's introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: Discourses of sustainability\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1        The millers’ tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill – Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley \u003cbr\u003e2        Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture – John Parham \u003cbr\u003e3        Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality – Kate Rigby  \u003cbr\u003e4        Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America – Lucy Bell\u003cbr\u003e5        Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison – Joshua Schuster\u003cbr\u003e6        The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature – Claire Colebrook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: Reading sustainability\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7        Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy – Dana Phillips \u003cbr\u003e8        ‘The shadow of the future made all the difference’: sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy – Chris Pak\u003cbr\u003e9        The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Gods\u003c\/i\u003e – Adeline Johns-Putra\u003cbr\u003e10    A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq’s \u003ci\u003eThe Possibility of an Island\u003c\/i\u003e – Hannes Bergthaller\u003cbr\u003e11    Jorie Graham’s \u003ci\u003eSea Change\u003c\/i\u003e: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we’re sustaining – Matthew Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e12    Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel’s\u003ci\u003e Life of Pi\u003c\/i\u003e – Louise Squire \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884295762263,"sku":"9780719099670","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literature-and-sustainability-9780719099670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}