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oapen-20.500.12657-587932022-10-15T03:21:36Z Cities and Wetlands Giblett, Rod Comparative literature Literary theory Conservation of the environment bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSA Literary theory bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNA Environmentalist thought & ideology This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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. 2022-10-14T14:53:53Z 2022-10-14T14:53:53Z 2016 book ONIX_20221014_9781474269841_124 9781474269841 9781474269834 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58793 eng Environmental Cultures application/pdf n/a 9781474269841.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781474269858 10.5040/9781474269858 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781474269841 9781474269834 Bloomsbury Academic 288 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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.
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