February 22, 2024

Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment provides a new home for cutting-edge scholarship in ecocriticism, broadly construed. Although the series’s impetus is rooted in awareness of contemporary environmental crisis, it welcomes scholars working within or across any period – from the medieval to the contemporary – who analyse the environmental literatures, media and cultures that inform the long history of environmental change. Likewise, the series is open to studies that bring in film, performance, visual art or digital media, alongside more traditional literary ...

“Environmental Apocalypse Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Exploration in Human Sciences” is the title we selected for an edited book. This ground breaking volume will enrich scholarly discussions surrounding the intersection of discourse and apocalypse vis-à-vis the ecological crisis.

The concept of the environmental apocalypse has gained significant attention in recent years, as the climate crisis becomes increasingly evident and alarming. We believe that apocalyptic environmental discourse is not confined to any single field of human activity, but it extends to various disciplines, including but not ...

Like many American authors who rose to prominence in the first half of the twentieth century, John Steinbeck came from an economically privileged Protestant family of European descent and grew up in a socially and religiously conservative environment. Like many of his contemporaries, he distanced himself from his upbringing in his fiction, rejecting the authority of government, of institutions, and of received cultural wisdom. He sided with the poor and dispossessed, he stood with the underdog, and he tried to give the downtrodden ...