French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century

by Gabriele Dürbeck (Editor), Daniel A. Finch-Race (Editor), Stephanie Posthumus (Editor)

Overview

This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631673454
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	05/16/2017
Series:	Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt , #1
Edition description:	New
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel Finch-Race is undertaking a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Southampton after completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge. His primary research entails ecocritical interpretations of nineteenth-century poetry　in French and Italian. His publications include a co-edited volume about textures in French contexts, a co-edited issue about ecopoetics in nineteenth-century France, and articles about Baudelaire, Dante, Rimbaud, Tennyson, and　Verlaine.

Stephanie Posthumus is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. Working in the field of contemporary French literature, she has published numerous articles on philosophies of nature and ecology, and on representations of landscapes, environments and non-human animals.

Table of Contents

French ecocriticism – Ecology/ecologies – Ecopoetics – Animal aesthetics – Forms of nature – Ecological thought – Environmental critique – Ecoerotica – Post-apocalyptic fiction – Becoming-milieu – The body – Landscapes – Ecocritique – Early modern – Sixteenth century – Nineteenth century – Twentieth century – Twenty-first century

Editorial Reviews

«French Ecocriticism bietet mithin ganz im Sinne der Herausgeber einen guten Überblick über das breite Spektrum der französischen écocritique, in der Politik und Poetik zueinander finden und die Fachleuten noch zu entdeckendes wissenschaftliches Neuland in Aussicht stellt.»
(Walter Wagner, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 2/2018)

«[...] for anyone involved in the environmental humanities from a French perspective this volume is essential reading.»
(Phillip John Usher, French Studies, 73/1 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kny307)

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