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Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterized by a thematic use of'death,'through which it explores a'crisis'of both environment and self. Squire refers to this emergent thematic device as'death-facing ecology'. This device enables this fiction to engage with a range of theoretical ideas and with popular notions of death and the human condition as cultural phenomena of the modern West. In doing so, this fiction invites its readers to consider how humanity might begin to respond to the crisis.

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Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously through the work of ecocriticism), its response specifically to sustainability—as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live, as an idea with a particular history, and as a ubiquitous term driven through over-use to near meaninglessness—has been extremely limited. The basic idea of the volume is to make a start on filling this gap. Split into four sections: Historicising sustainability, Discourses of sustainability, The sustainability of literature, Sustainability in literature – it has some very good contributors, and starts off with an introduction about the history of the term, looks at its beginnings in the C19th, and goes onto show how contemporary authors are dealing with it including Jeanette Winterson, Michel Houellebecq, Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh.

Environmental literature --- Environmentalism in literature. --- Literature. --- History and criticism. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Sustainability. --- Ecology in literature. --- Literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Sustainability science --- Human ecology --- Social ecology --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Sustainability --- Environmentalism --- History --- Literacy Criticism --- Thorium --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- History and criticism..