Literature and Sustainability

Adeline Johns-Putra is Professor and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University MalaysiaJohn Parham was Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of WorcesterLouise Squire is an Independent Scholar

• Foreword by Gillen D’Arcy WoodEditor's introductionPART I: Discourses of sustainability1 The millers’ tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill – Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley 2 Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture – John Parham 3 Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality – Kate Rigby 4 Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America – Lucy Bell5 Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison – Joshua Schuster6 The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature – Claire ColebrookPART II: Reading sustainability7 Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy – Dana Phillips 8 ‘The shadow of the future made all the difference’: sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy – Chris Pak9 The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods – Adeline Johns-Putra10 A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq’s The Possibility of an Island – Hannes Bergthaller11 Jorie Graham’s Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we’re sustaining – Matthew Griffiths12 Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi – Louise Squire Index