Green Modernism Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930
One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically inf
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encourage multiple perspectives and intercultural dialogue on environmental issues and their representation.
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Green Modernism: Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930 By Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy
Green Moder nism Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930
Jef frey Mathes McCar thy
GREEN MODERNISM
Copyright © Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-54935-8 All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-56232-9 ISBN 978-1-137-52604-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137526045 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCarthy, Jeffrey Mathes, 1965– Green modernism : nature and the English novel, 1900 to 1930 / Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy. pages cm.—(Literatures, cultures, and the environment) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Nature in literature 3. Ecology in literature I. Title. PR888.N36M33 2015 8239.9140936—dc23
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For Whitney and for love
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
1 “The Land’s Way is Important in This Story”: Environmental Criticism in Modernist Studies
1
2 “A Choice of Nightmares”: Nature and the Modern Mind in Heart of Darkness
41
3 Conrad’s Weather: The Politics of Ecology in Under Western Eyes
77
4 1928 and Nature: Ruralism and Regeneration in Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Last Post
115
5 Mary Butts and England’s Nature: Modernist Georgic, Authentic Englishness, and the Consolations of Dwelling
157
6 “Pan in America,” Modernism, and Material Nature
199
Notes
213
Works Cited
243
Index
255
Acknowledgments
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