Literature and 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 -- .