Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity

by Anna Banks

Book Overview

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498532845
• ISBN13: 9781498532846
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"