Cities and Wetlands

The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture

AvRod Giblett,Richard Kerridge

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment.Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-02-22
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:449 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Cultures
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350060609

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Rod Giblett has published many studies of environmental cultures. He is currently researching and writing a book called Modern Melbourne: CIty and Site of Nature and Culture.

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I BEGINNINGS1. Introduction: Looking Back, Looking Forward2. Aquaterrapolises: Swamp cities and marsh metropolisesII EUROPEAN CITIES AND WETLANDS3. Paris: or Lutetia, ‘the filthy marsh’4. London: The ‘nether world’ of ‘the city of dreadful night’5. Venice: ‘A tropical marshland, steaming, monstrous, rank’6. Berlin: ‘A dingy city in a marsh’ 7. Hamburg: ‘This marshy, watery city’8. St Petersburg: ‘Marooned on the Neva’s marsh delta’ III NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND WETLANDS9. New York: Set in ‘a mosquito-infested swamp’10. Boston: and the Back Bay Fens11. New Orleans: The swamp is no place for a city12. Toronto: ‘Set in malarial lakeside swamps’13. Washington: ‘A discouraging site bordered by a swamp’14. Chicago: ‘Built in the midst of a great level swamp’IV MORE BEGINNINGS15. Conclusion: The city as body, the earth as body and the body as earthReferencesNotesAcknowledgementsIndex