Title

Environmentalism

Abstract

What does the form of literary analysis based on environmental values, known as ecocriticism in the US and green studies in the UK, have to offer readers of sf? In turn, what does sf have to offer ecocriticism? A signicant vein in the earliest sf, paralleling natural history, consisted of terrestrial voyages of discovery. Two ubiquitous questions appeared in both: what is nature? what is a human being? Sf’s ethical dimension has long included a particular elaboration and method for addressing both questions: environmentalism, which in the public domain combines ethical theory and political activism.

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Publication Title

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Number of Pages

373-381

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203871317-46

Socpus ID

78049304622 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/78049304622

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