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Agrotopias : An American Literary History of Sustainability
Author
Title
Agrotopias : An American Literary History of Sustainability / Abby L. Goode.
ISBN
9781469669847
9781469669816
9781469669823
9781469669830
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and its enduring connections to racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable conditions such as population growth and plantation slavery. In response, they imagined 'agrotopias'-sustainable societies unaffected by the nation's agricultural and population crises-elsewhere. Though seemingly progressive, these agrotopian visions depicted selective breeding and racial 'improvement' as the path to environmental stability. In this fascinating study, Goode uncovers an early sustainability rhetoric interested in shaping, just as much as sustaining, the American population"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
No rural bowl of milk: unsustainability and the demographic agrarian ideal
Gothic fertility and other tropical nightmares: Jefferson, Crevecoeur, Sansay
African agrotopias: sustaining Black nationalism beyond U.S. borders
Sustainable sprawl: Whitman's eugenic agrarianism
Asexual sustainability in "Herland"
Agrotopian legacies.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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