Climate change and the contemporary novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Subjects:	Climatic changes in literature. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The ethics of posterity and the climate change novel
The limits of parental care ethics: Cormac McCarthy's The road and Maggie Gee's The ice people
Overpopulation and motherhood environmentalism: Edan Lepucki's California and Liz Jensen's The road
Identity, ethical agency, and radical posterity: Jeanette Winterson's The stone
Gods and Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army
Science, utopianism, and ecocentric posterity: Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Science in the capital' and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behaviour
Conclusion: the sense of no ending.