Screen LibraryExhausted ecologies : modernism and environmental recovery /
"Surveying the state of literature in the 1930s, E. M. Forster is nostalgic for the relative peace of the Edwardian England of his youth. He paints a picture of the modern world as one without rest, fixity, or security. This characterization of modernity is a common one. Always on the move, eve...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Surveying the state of literature in the 1930s, E. M. Forster is nostalgic for the relative peace of the Edwardian England of his youth. He paints a picture of the modern world as one without rest, fixity, or security. This characterization of modernity is a common one. Always on the move, ever-expanding, always innovating, the modernist knows no bounds. Forster admits that restlessness gives the modern era its identity, but he frankly finds such a world exhausting"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108477918 1108477917 |
| Index Number: | PR478 |
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I712.065 I561.065 |
| Call Number: | I561.065/K141 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Places of Rest -- I. Nature's Reserves: Rural Exhaustion, Inertia, and Generative Aesthetics -- II. Urban Environs: James Joyce and the Politics of Shared Atmosphere -- III. Waste Lands: Dark Pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes -- IV. Uprooting Empire: Jean Rhys and Unrest in Imperial Centers -- V. Decolonizing Ecology: Chinua Achebe's New Forms of Unease -- Conclusion: The Limits of Modernist Regeneration. |