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Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings of antebellum and contemporary writers including Walt Whitman and Lucille Clifton, George Catlin and Louise Erdrich, and Herman Melville and A. S. Byatt, the book demonstrates that some of our most vaunted strategies to address ecological crisis in fact perpetuate environmental degradation.Yet Michelle C. Neely also reveals that the nineteenth century offers useful and generative environmentalisms, if only we know where and how to find them. Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson experimented with models of joyful, anti-consumerist frugality. Hannah Crafts and Harriet Wilson devised forms of radical pet-keeping that model more just ways of living with others. Ultimately, the book explores forms of utopianism that might more reliably guide mainstream environmental culture toward transformative forms of ecological and social justice. Through new readings of familiar texts, Against Sustainability demonstrates how nineteenth-century U.S. literature can help us rethink our environmental paradigms in order to imagine more just and environmentally sound futures.
American literature --- Environmentalism in literature. --- Human ecology in literature. --- Nature --- History and criticism. --- Effect of human beings on --- Antebellum Literature. --- Anthropocene. --- Dickinson. --- Environmentalism. --- Melville. --- Nineteenth Century. --- Preservation. --- Sustainability. --- Thoreau. --- Whitman.
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'Against Sustainability' responds to 21st century environmental crisis not by seeking the origins of US environmental problems, but by returning to the nineteenth-century literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to many of our most familiar environmental solutions. In readings that juxtapose antebellum and contemporary writers such as Walt Whitman and Lucille Clifton, George Catlin and Louise Erdrich, and Herman Melville and A.S. Byatt, the text reconnects sustainability, recycling, and preservation with 19th century US contexts such as industrial farming, consumerism, slavery, and settler colonial expansion.
American literature --- Environmentalism in literature. --- Human ecology in literature. --- Nature --- American literature --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Effect of human beings on --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.
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