World Literature and Ecology: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950

by Michael Niblett

Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in Trinidad, Brazil, and Britain, World Literature and Ecology shows how literary texts have registered the relationship between the re-making of biophysical natures and struggles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030385833
• ISBN13: 9783030385835
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"