Description
Product ID: | 9780367664831 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature |
Title: | Conrad and Nature |
Subtitle: | Essays |
Authors: | Author: Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, John G. Peters |
Page Count: | 336 |
Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: from c 1900 -, English |
Description: | Conrad and Nature is the first collection of critical essays examining nature and the environment in Joseph Conrad’s writings. These essays reveal the crucial importance of nature in Conrad’s work, and the vital, ongoing relevance of Conrad’s treatment of the environment in our era of globalization and climate change. Conrad and Nature is the first collection of critical essays examining nature and the environment in Joseph Conrad’s writings. Together, these essays by established and emerging scholars reveal both the crucial importance of nature in Conrad’s work, and the vital, ongoing relevance of Conrad’s treatment of the environment in our era of globalization and climate change. No richer subject matter for an environmentally-engaged criticism can be found than the Conradian contexts and themes under investigation in this volume: island cultures, colonial occupations, storms at sea, mining and extraction, inconstant weather, ecological collapse, and human communities competing for resources. The 17 essays collected here —13 new essays, and 4 excerpts from classic works of Conradian scholarship -- consolidate some of the most important voices and perspectives on Conrad’s relation to the natural world, and open new avenues for Conradian and environmental scholarship in the 21st century. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-09-30 |