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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784145503321

Autore

Marzec Robert P

Titolo

An ecological and postcolonial study of literature [[electronic resource] ] : from Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie / / by Robert P. Marzec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36266-2

9786611362669

0-230-60437-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English fiction - History and criticism

Inclosures in literature

Land tenure in literature

Land use in literature

Imperialism in literature

Ontology in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Enclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: Notes toward an Ontology of Land; Chapter Two: The Territorialization of Land; Chapter Three: Problematizing Enclosure in Eighteenth-Century English Literature; Chapter Four: Inhabiting Land in the Age of Empire: Twentieth-Century Literature; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how we relate to the earth and conceive of ourselves as human.