The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781009060813)

Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current - and inescapable - vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary climate crisis. Essays explore the conceptualisation of climate in a range of literary and creative modes; they represent a diversity of cultural and historical perspectives, and a wide spectrum of voices and views across the categories of race, gender, and class. Key issues in climate criticism and literary studies are introduced and explained, while new and emerging concepts are discussed and debated in a final section that puts expert analyses in conversation with each other.

Author: Adeline Johns-Putra
ISBN-10: 1009060813
ISBN-13: 9781009060813
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2022
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2023