Literature and sustainability

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PART I: Discourses of sustainability 11 1 Th e millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill -Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Th omas and Richard Marggraf Turley 13 2 Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture -John Parham 33 3 Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality -Kate Rigby 52 4 Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America -Lucy Bell 76 5 Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison -Joshua Schuster 97 6 Th e twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature -Claire Colebrook PART II: Reading sustainability 137 7 Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood ' s MaddAddam trilogy -Dana Phillips 8 'Th e shadow of the future made all the diff erence': sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson ' s Science in the Capital trilogy -Chris Pak Contents vi Contents 9 Th e unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson ' s Th e Stone Gods -Adeline Johns-Putra 10 A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq ' s Th e Possibility of an Island -Hannes Bergthaller 11 Jorie Graham ' s Sea Change : the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we ' re sustaining -Matthew Griffi ths 12 Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel ' s Life of Pi -Louise Squire Index vii