Risk Criticism : Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty /

'Risk Criticism: Reading in an Age of Manufactured Uncertainties' is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk that offers an environmental humanities approach to understanding risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. 'Risk Criticism: Reading i...

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Main Author: Wallace, Molly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
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505 0 |a Introduction: Will the apocalypse have been now? : literary criticism in an age of global risk -- The second nuclear age and its wagers : archival reflexions -- We all live in Bhopal? : staging global risk -- Discomfort food : analogy and biotechnology -- Letting plastic have its say; or, plastic's tell -- The Port Radium paradigm; or, Fukushima in a changing climate -- Afterword: Writing "the bomb" : inheritances in the anthropocene. 
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