Green Rhetoric
Trends in Environmental Discourse
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- Authors
- Anwesha Gogoi, Maitreyee Dutta
- Publisher
- Akhand Publishing House
- Categories
- Best Sellers, Environmental Studies, Literature, Nonfiction
- ISBN
- 9788119098361
- Edition
- 2025
- Format
- Hard Bound
- Size
- Demy
- Pages
- 288
Description
The book examines how literary discourse on the environment has evolved from the Romantic idealization of nature to contemporary ecological activism in the Anthropocene. It traces the shift from Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats, who portrayed nature as sublime, spiritual, and moral, to Victorian writers like Hardy and Ruskin who began to address industrial anxieties, and to modernist works that reflected a fragmented, industrialized world. The study then focuses on the emergence of climate fiction (cli‑fi) and how authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Margaret Atwood, and Richard Powers use narrative as resistance, advocating for environmental awareness and justice. The book discusses the tension between Romantic aestheticization and ecological critique, highlighting scholarly debates that question whether Romantic nature writing reinforced a human‑nature dichotomy. Themes include the transformation of environmental rhetoric, the role of literature as activism, and the ongoing dialogue between aesthetic appreciation and ecological responsibility.