Climate and Literature
Subtitle: Reflections of Environment (Studies in Comparative Literature)
Contributors: Janet Perez (Editor); Wendell M. Aycock (Editor)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780896723542
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Reference; Special Subjects In Literature; Nature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Nature/Ecology; Weather in literature; Setting (Literature); General; Climate in literature
First sentence: Endangered species, acid rain, global warming and the ills of pollution, deforestation and desertification figure among almost daily reminders of the fragility of Earth's ecosystem, and climate plays a prominent role in many of these.