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John Parham - A Global History of Literature and the Environment - 9781107102620 - V9781107102620
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A Global History of Literature and the Environment

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Description for A Global History of Literature and the Environment hardcover. This book offers a wide-ranging international history of environmental writing from ancient Mesopotamian and Asian works to the present. Editor(s): Parham, John; Westling, Louise. Num Pages: 459 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 2. Weight in Grams: 788.
In A Global History of Literature and the Environment, an international group of scholars illustrate the immense riches of environmental writing from the earliest literary periods down to the present. It addresses ancient writings about human/animal/plant relations from India, classical Greece, Chinese and Japanese literature, the Maya Popol Vuh, Islamic texts, medieval European works, eighteenth-century and Romantic ecologies, colonial/postcolonial environmental interrelations, responses to industrialization, and the emerging literatures of the world in the present Anthropocene moment. Essays range from Trinidad to New Zealand, Estonia to Brazil. Discussion of these texts indicates a variety of ways environmental criticism can fruitfully engage ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
459
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107102620
SKU
V9781107102620
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12

About John Parham
John Parham is Associate Head of Research and Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts at the University of Worcester. He has written Green Media and Popular Culture: An Introduction (2016) and Green Man Hopkins: Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination (2010), edited The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (2002) and has ... Read more

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