Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction

A Poetics of Earth

• Author(s): A. Curry,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 113727011X
  ISBN_13: 9781137270115
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.