Green Modernism [electronic resource] : Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930 /
McCarthy, Jeffrey Mathes.author.
One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, and Butts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The land's way is important in this story: environmental criticism in modernist studies --A choice of nightmares: nature and the modern mind in heart of darkness -- Conrad's weather: the politics of ecology in under western eyes -- 1928 and nature: ruralism and regeneration in Lady Chatterley's lover and The last post -- E Mary Butts and England's nature: modernist Georgic, authentic Englishness and the consolations of dwelling -- Pan in America, modernism, and material nature.
One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, and Butts.
Literature—History and criticism.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
European literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
European Literature.
Fiction.