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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2020
      January 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108775212
      9781108477918
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108775212
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 342 Pages
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      Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
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    This book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingdom. Restless modernists such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys developed a literary aesthetic of slowness and immediacy to critique the exhausting and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and industrial life. At the same time, environmental groups such as the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves and the Smoke Abatement League moved from economic registers of 'value' and 'trust' to more cultural terms of 'recovery' and 'regeneration' to position nature as a healing force in the postwar era. Through a variety of literary, scientific, and political texts, an environmental movement emerged alongside the fast, fragmented, and traumatic aspects of modernization in order to sustain place and community in terms of lateral influence and ecological dependence.

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    ‘… a significant contribution to this nascent but rapidly growing body of modernist eco-criticism.’

    William Kupinse Source: James Joyce Literary Supplement

    ‘In his introduction, Kalaidjian expresses the need for both modernism and ecocriticism to advance each other and not “simply reinterpret one through the other’s lens”. Exhausted Ecologies therefore has much to offer to those studying Europe and its empires, environmental historians, modernist literary critics, and ecocritical scholars alike. Kalaidjian’s work here overall is timely in light of the increasing threat of climate disaster, as well as a fascinating view into the connections between modernist literature and the beginnings of modern environmentalism.'

    Leanna Lostoski-Ho Source: EuropeNow

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