A History of Irish Literature and the Environment - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108490131 ISBN 13: 9781108490139

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

From Gaelic annals and medieval poetry to contemporary Irish literature, A History of Irish Literature and the Environment examines the connections between the Irish environment and Irish literary culture. Themes such as Ireland's island ecology, the ecological history of colonial-era plantation and deforestation, the Great Famine, cultural attitudes towards animals and towards the land, the postcolonial politics of food and energy generation, and the Covid-19 pandemic - this book shows how these factors determine not only a history of the Irish environment but also provide fresh perspectives from which to understand and analyze Irish literature. An international team of contributors provides a comprehensive analysis of Irish literature to show how the literary has always been deeply engaged with environmental questions in Ireland, a crucial  new perspective in an age of climate crisis. A History of Irish Literature and the Environment reveals the socio-cultural, racial, and gendered aspects embedded in questions of the Irish environment.

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About the Author

Malcolm Sen teaches in the Department of English at UMass Amherst. He is the author of Unnatural Disasters: Irish Literature, Climate Change and Sovereignty (2022). His research interests include the environmental humanities and postcolonial studies; he is especially interested in changing conceptions of sovereignty in the twenty-first century. Sen has published numerous articles and book chapters in these areas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108490131
• ISBN 13: 9781108490139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Sen Malcolm