TY - BOOK AU - Johns-Putra,Adeline TI - Climate change and the contemporary novel SN - 9781108427371 U1 - 333.75 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Climatic changes in literature KW - American fiction KW - English fiction N1 - Introduction -- The ethics of posterity and the climate change novel -- The limits of parental care ethics: Cormac McCarthy's The road and Maggie Gee's The ice people -- Overpopulation and motherhood environmentalism: Edan Lepucki's California and Liz Jensen's The road -- Identity, ethical agency, and radical posterity: Jeanette Winterson's The stone -- Gods and Sarah Hall's The Carhullan army -- Science, utopianism, and ecocentric posterity: Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Science in the capital' and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behaviour -- Conclusion: the sense of no ending ER -