Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis by Neely, Michelle
Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis by Neely, Michelle

Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis

Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific...
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Author: Michelle Neely
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Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis by Neely, Michelle

Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis

$118.35
Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis by Neely, Michelle

Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis

$118.35
Author: Michelle Neely
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings of antebellum and contemporary writers including Walt Whitman and Lucille Clifton, George Catlin and Louise Erdrich, and Herman Melville and A. S. Byatt, the book demonstrates that some of our most vaunted strategies to address ecological crisis in fact perpetuate environmental degradation.

Yet Michelle C. Neely also reveals that the nineteenth century offers useful and generative environmentalisms, if only we know where and how to find them. Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson experimented with models of joyful, anti-consumerist frugality. Hannah Crafts and Harriet Wilson devised forms of radical pet-keeping that model more just ways of living with others. Ultimately, the book explores forms of utopianism that might more reliably guide mainstream environmental culture toward transformative forms of ecological and social justice. Through new readings of familiar texts, Against Sustainability demonstrates how nineteenth-century U.S. literature can help us rethink our environmental paradigms in order to imagine more just and environmentally sound futures.

Author: Michelle Neely
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 06/02/2020
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780823288205


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
Michelle C. Neely is Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies at Connecticut College.
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