An ecological and postcolonial study of literature [[electronic resource] ] : from Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie / / by Robert P. Marzec
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Marzec Robert P
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| Titolo: |
An ecological and postcolonial study of literature [[electronic resource] ] : from Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie / / by Robert P. Marzec
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/358 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - History and criticism |
| Inclosures in literature | |
| Land tenure in literature | |
| Land use in literature | |
| Imperialism in literature | |
| Ontology in literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | An ecological and postcolonial study of literature |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36266-2 |
| 9786611362669 | |
| 0-230-60437-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784145503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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