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Cities and wetlands : the return of the repressed in nature and culture / Rob Giblett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Environmental cultures seriesPublisher: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: viii, 276 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781474269827
  • 1474269826
  • 1474269834
  • 9781474269834
  • 1474269842
  • 9781474269841
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GF125 .G52 2016
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Beginnings -- 1. Introduction: Looking Back, Looking Forward -- 2. Aquaterrapolises: Swamp Cities and Marsh Metropolises -- pt. 2 European Cities and Wetlands -- 3. Paris: Or, Lutetia, "The Filthy Marsh" -- 4. London: The "Nether World" of "the City of Dreadful Night" -- 5. Venice: "A Tropical Marshland, Steaming, Monstrous, Rank" -- 6. Berlin: "A Dingy City in a Marsh" -- 7. Hamburg: "This Marshy, Watery City" -- 8. St. Petersburg: "Marooned on the Neva's Marsh Delta" -- pt. 3 North American Cities and Wetlands -- 9. New York: A City Set in "a Mosquito-Infested Swamp" -- 10. Boston: "Tidal Flats and Marshes Once Surrounded the City" -- 11. New Orleans: "The Swamp is No Place for a City" -- 12. Toronto: A City "Set in Malarial Lakeside Swamps" -- 13. Washington: "A Discouraging Site Bordered by a Swamp" -- 14. Chicago: "Built in the Midst of a Great Level Swamp" -- pt. 4 More Beginnings -- 15. Conclusion: The City as Body, the Earth as Body, and the Body as Earth.
Summary: From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. This is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.
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Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves QH541.5.C6 G53 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800173064
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Beginnings -- 1. Introduction: Looking Back, Looking Forward -- 2. Aquaterrapolises: Swamp Cities and Marsh Metropolises -- pt. 2 European Cities and Wetlands -- 3. Paris: Or, Lutetia, "The Filthy Marsh" -- 4. London: The "Nether World" of "the City of Dreadful Night" -- 5. Venice: "A Tropical Marshland, Steaming, Monstrous, Rank" -- 6. Berlin: "A Dingy City in a Marsh" -- 7. Hamburg: "This Marshy, Watery City" -- 8. St. Petersburg: "Marooned on the Neva's Marsh Delta" -- pt. 3 North American Cities and Wetlands -- 9. New York: A City Set in "a Mosquito-Infested Swamp" -- 10. Boston: "Tidal Flats and Marshes Once Surrounded the City" -- 11. New Orleans: "The Swamp is No Place for a City" -- 12. Toronto: A City "Set in Malarial Lakeside Swamps" -- 13. Washington: "A Discouraging Site Bordered by a Swamp" -- 14. Chicago: "Built in the Midst of a Great Level Swamp" -- pt. 4 More Beginnings -- 15. Conclusion: The City as Body, the Earth as Body, and the Body as Earth.

From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. This is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.

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