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Agrotopias : an American literary history of sustainability
- Title
- Agrotopias : an American literary history of sustainability / Abby L. Goode.
- Author
- Goode, Abby L.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 275 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-355
- ISBN
- 9781469669816
- 1469669811
- 9781469669823
- 146966982X
- 9781469669830 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781469669847 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022015054
- OCLC
- 1327606180
- Author
- Goode, Abby L., author.
- Title
- Agrotopias : an American literary history of sustainability / Abby L. Goode.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-355