Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel

by Adeline Johns-Putra

Climate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel, as authors reflect concerns in wider society. Given the urgency and enormity of the problem, can literature (and the emotional response it provokes) play a role in answering the complex ethical issues that arise because of climate change? This book shows that conventional fictional techniques should not be disregarded as inadequate to the demands of climate change; rather, fiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108427375
• ISBN13: 9781108427371
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 9.3"