The ecocidal imagination: dystopian fiction in an era of environmental crisis

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The ecocidal imagination: dystopian fiction in an era of environmental crisis

Specifically addressing the environmental turn of recent dystopian fiction, this thesis investigates the ways in which environmental crisis and climate change have been represented through speculative dystopian futures. This analysis draws on research from both utopian/dystopian studies and ecocriti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johnson, Hollie
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	Ecodystopia Dystopia Ecocriticism Dystopian Fiction Climate Change Posthumanism
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55420/

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