Climate change and the contemporary novel /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The ethics of posterity and the climate change novel
- The limits of parental care ethics: Cormac McCarthy's The road and Maggie Gee's The ice people
- Overpopulation and motherhood environmentalism: Edan Lepucki's California and Liz Jensen's The road
- Identity, ethical agency, and radical posterity: Jeanette Winterson's The stone
- Gods and Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army
- Science, utopianism, and ecocentric posterity: Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Science in the capital' and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behaviour
- Conclusion: the sense of no ending.