Climate change fiction and eco-cultural crisis : the Industrial Revolution to the present /

"Focusing on the climate change novel, Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis gives an overview of some well-known narratives that contribute to contemporary understandings of climate change and imagine the role of the human in triggering it. The book proposes to broaden the cli-fi genre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Konrad, Tatiana, 1991- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Climatic changes in literature. Climatology in literature. Human ecology in literature. Ecology in literature. Ecocriticism in literature. Ecofiction > History and criticism. Climat > Changements, dans la littérature. Climat dans la littérature. Écologie humaine dans la littérature. Écocritique dans la littérature. Roman écologique > Histoire et critique.

Table of Contents:

Weather : energy, meteorology, and the birth of climate change in nineteenth-century fiction
Science : scientists/science tropes, climatic Darwinism, and the future in climate change fiction
Religion : eco-theology and biblical imagery in climate change fiction
The Postcolonial : environmental racism, fragmentation of the world, and survival in climate change fiction
Coronavirus lessons for climate change procrastination.