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• Author/Creator:Goode, Abby L., author.
  
• Title:Agrotopias : An American Literary History of Sustainability / Abby L. Goode.
  
• ISBN:9781469669847
  9781469669816
  9781469669823
  9781469669830
  
• Publication:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
  
• Manufacture: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
  
• Copyright notice date: ©[2022]
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary:"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"--
  
• Variant and related titles:Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
  
• Contents:No rural bowl of milk: unsustainability and the demographic agrarian ideal -- Gothic fertility and other tropical nightmares: Jefferson, Crevecoeur, Sansay -- African agrotopias: sustaining Black nationalism beyond U.S. borders -- Sustainable sprawl: Whitman's eugenic agrarianism -- Asexual sustainability in "Herland" -- Agrotopian legacies.
  
• Subjects: Sustainable agriculture--United States--History.
  Racism in literature.
  Eugenics in literature.
  Agriculture in literature.
  Environmentalism in literature.
  Sustainable agriculture.
  Racism in literature.
  Environmentalism in literature.
  Agriculture in literature.
  United States.
  
• Genre/Form:History.
  
• Also listed under:Project Muse. distributor