Exhausted ecologies : modernism and environmental recovery /
"Surveying the state of literature in the 1930s, E. M. Forster is nostalgic for the relative peace of the Edwardian England of his youth. He paints a picture of the modern world as one without rest, fixity, or security. This characterization of modernity is a common one. Always on the move, eve...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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书本目录:
- Introduction: Places of Rest
- I. Nature's Reserves: Rural Exhaustion, Inertia, and Generative Aesthetics
- II. Urban Environs: James Joyce and the Politics of Shared Atmosphere
- III. Waste Lands: Dark Pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes
- IV. Uprooting Empire: Jean Rhys and Unrest in Imperial Centers
- V. Decolonizing Ecology: Chinua Achebe's New Forms of Unease
- Conclusion: The Limits of Modernist Regeneration.