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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791223703321

Autore

Willmott Glenn <1963->

Titolo

Modern animalism : habitats of scarcity and wealth in comics and literature / / Glenn Willmott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4426-9559-5

1-4426-9558-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.)

Disciplina

809/.911

Soggetti

Primitivism in literature

Economics in literature

Ecology in literature

Scarcity

Modernism (Literature)

Postmodernism (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Modern Habitats""; ""2 Problem Creatures""; ""3 Surviving History""; ""4 Growing Wonder""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""; ""Colour Plates""

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish.