02407oam 2200469 450 991013686390332120230621140412.09780472900671(ebook)9780472121694(ebook)9780472073023(hardback)9780472053025(paperback)(CKB)3710000000729582(EXLCZ)99371000000072958220161020h20162016 fy 0engurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRisk criticism precautionary reading in an age of environmental uncertainty /Molly WallaceAnn Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,[2016].©20161 online resource (viii, 264 pages) PDF, digital file(s)Print version: 9780472053025 Includes bibliographical references and index.'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. 'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists re-set its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953. What pushed its hands was, however, not just the threat of nuclear weapons, but also other global environmental risks that the Bulletin judged to have risen to the scale of the nuclear, including climate change and innovations in the life sciences.EcocriticismCriticismRisk in literatureEnvironmental risk assessmentRisk-taking (Psychology)Ecocriticism.Criticism.Risk in literature.Environmental risk assessment.Risk-taking (Psychology).809.93355Wallace Molly914994UkMaJRU9910136863903321Risk criticism2050472UNINA