This book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingdom. Restless modernists such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys developed a literary aesthetic of slowness and immediacy to critique the exhausting and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and industrial life. At the same time, environmental groups such as the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves and the Smoke Abatement League moved from economic registers of 'value' and 'trust' to more cultural terms of 'recovery' and 'regeneration' to position nature as a healing force in the postwar era. Through a variety of literary, scientific, and political texts, an environmental movement emerged alongside the fast, fragmented, and traumatic aspects of modernization in order to sustain place and community in terms of lateral influence and ecological dependence.
| ISBN: | 9781108477918 |
| Publication date: | 23rd January 2020 |
| Author: | Andrew California State University, Dominguez Hills Kalaidjian |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 342 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: general |