Ecology and literature of the British Left : the red and the green
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Ecology and literature of the British Left : the red and the green
Ashgate, c2012
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners of ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology have argued that the social, the economic and the environmental have to be seen as part of the same process. Taking up this challenge, the contributors trace the origins of an environmental sensibility and of the modern left to their roots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, charting the ways in which the literary imagination responds to the political, industrial and agrarian revolutions. Topics include Samuel Taylor Coleridge's credentials as a green writer, the interaction between John Ruskin's religious and political ideas and his changing view of nature, William Morris and the Garden City movement, H. G. Wells and the Fabians, the devastated landscapes in the poetry and fiction of the First World War, and the leftist pastoral poetry of the 1930s. In historicizing and connecting environmentally sensitive literature with socialist thought, these essays explore the interactive vision of nature and society in the work of writers ranging from William Wordsworth and John Clare to John Berger and John Burnside.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, H. GustavKlaus, JohnRignall
- Chapter 1 Contemporary Ecocriticism between Red and Green, RichardKerridge
- Chapter 2 Was Coleridge Green?, SeamusPerry
- Chapter 3 'Wastes of corn', HelenaKelly
- Chapter 4 John Clare's Weeds, MinaGorji
- Chapter 5 John Clare & ... & ... & ... Deleuze and Guattari's Rhizome, SimonKoevesi
- Chapter 6 Graeco-Roman Pastoral and Social Class in Arthur Hugh Clough's Bothie and Thomas Hardy's Under The Greenwood Tree, StephenHarrison
- Chapter 7 Landscape, Labour and History in Later Nineteenth-Century Writing, JohnRignall
- Chapter 8 Fallen Nature, DinahBirch
- Chapter 9 William Morris and the Garden City, AnnaVaninskaya
- Chapter 10 H.G. Wells, Fabianism and the 'Shape of Things to Come', JohnSloan
- Chapter 11 Guardianship and Fellowship, WilliamGreenslade
- Chapter 12 Felled Trees-Fallen Soldiers, H. GustavKlaus
- Chapter 13 Marxist Cricket? Some Versions of Pastoral in the Poetry of the Thirties, ValentineCunningham
- Chapter 14 Eco-anarchism, the New Left and Romanticism, JamesRadcliffe
- Chapter 15 A Huge Lacuna vis-a-vis the Peasants, ChristianSchmitt-Kilb
- Chapter 16 Green Links, GraemeMacdonald
by "Nielsen BookData"