David W Noble: 2 books
Debating the End of History
The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long...
Romantic Ecocriticism
Origins and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological...