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Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect | Heather Houser
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The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings, and as efforts to prevent ecological and human degradation aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. �Ecosickness (…more)
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This weekend I'm reading Heather Houser's "Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S Fiction," which examines affect as a method through which "ecosickness fiction" raises environmental concern. The suggestion that emotion can move people from empirical knowledge to action is a particularly gratifying one as a humanities student! #ecocriticism #study #research #englishstudent

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