Agrotopias : an American literary history of sustainability / Abby L. Goode.
| Author/creator |
Goode, Abby L. author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022] |
| Description | xv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | No rural bowl of milk: unsustainability and the demographic agrarian ideal -- Gothic fertility and other tropical nightmares: Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, Sansay -- African agrotopias: sustaining Black nationalism beyond U.S. borders -- Sustainable sprawl: Whitman's eugenic agrarianism -- Asexual sustainability in "Herland" -- Agrotopian legacies. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Goode, Abby L. Agrotopias. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022] 9781469669847 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022015054 |
| ISBN | 9781469669816 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469669811 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469669823 paperback |
| ISBN | 146966982X paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PN56.E638 G66 2022 | Item has been checked out - Due: 08/17/2024 | Want This? |