Cities and wetlands : the return of the repressed in nature and culture /

"From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried h...

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Main Author: Giblett, Rodney James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Series:Environmental cultures series.
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Summary:"From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 276 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781474269858
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DOI:10.5040/9781474269858
Finding Aid:Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue.