The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate

Adeline Johns-Putra editor Kelly Sultzbach editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:7th Apr '22

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This volume unfolds the complex relationship between literature and climate by uniquely illuminating historical complexity, diverse viewpoints, and emerging issues.

This book introduces students to the field of climate and literature while offering seasoned scholars novel ways to approach its dynamic expansions. It highlights diversity across geography, race, and class, as well as genre. It not only introduces key issues but also puts emerging themes in conversation.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.

'Scholars and activists interested in the possibilities of recent cli-fi and related genres will find these essays helpful … Recommended.' J. Bilbro, Choice

ISBN: 9781009060813

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 22mm

Weight: 550g

300 pages