Literature & Sustainability

Foreword by Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Editor's introduction

PART I: Discourses of sustainability

1 The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill - Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley

2 Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture - John Parham

3 Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality - Kate Rigby

4 Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America - Lucy Bell

5 Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison - Joshua Schuster

6 The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature - Claire Colebrook

PART II: Reading sustainability

7 Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy - Dana Phillips

8 'The shadow of the future made all the difference': sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy - Chris Pak

9 The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods - Adeline Johns-Putra

10 A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island - Hannes Bergthaller

11 Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining - Matthew Griffiths

12 Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi - Louise Squire

Index