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Agrotopias : an American literary history of sustainability  Cover Image Book Book

Agrotopias : an American literary history of sustainability / Abby L. Goode.

Goode, Abby L., (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781469669816
  • ISBN: 9781469669823
  • Physical Description: xv, 275 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Environmentalism in literature.
Agriculture in literature.
Eugenics in literature.
Racism in literature.
Sustainable agriculture > United States > History.

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Pease Public Library 810.935 GOODE
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504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
5050 . ‡aNo 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.
520 . ‡a"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"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
650 0. ‡aEnvironmentalism in literature.
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650 0. ‡aSustainable agriculture ‡zUnited States ‡xHistory.
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