Cities and Wetlands
The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Theory, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection
| Author: | Dr Rod Giblett | ISBN: | 9781474269834 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing | Publication: | August 11, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic | Language: | English |
| Author: | Dr Rod Giblett |
| ISBN: | 9781474269834 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication: | August 11, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Language: | English |
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment.
Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment.
Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.
