Ecosickness in contemporary U.S. fiction : environment and affect / Heather Houser.

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"Establishes that we cannot comprehend environmental and medical dilemmas through data alone and must call on the sometimes surprising emotions that literary metaphors, tropes, and narratives deploy."--Publishers website.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Literature now.
Main Author: Houser, Heather (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:Literature now.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Environmentalism in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Physical Description:xi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:
Ecosickness in contemporary United States fiction.
Format: Book

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