Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel
By Astrid Bracke. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, Environmental Cultures Series, 2017.
The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel examines twelve works that reflect growing cultural awareness of climate crisis and participate in the reshaping of the stories that surround it. Central to this renegotiation are four narratives: environmental collapse, pastoral, ...