Title: Climate change and the contemporary novel /
Authors: Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Climatic changes in literature.; American fiction History and criticism; American fiction History and criticism.; English fiction History and criticism; English fiction History and criticism.; American fiction; Climatic changes in literature.; English fiction; Klimaänderung; Roman; Englisch
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.