The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels: Rewritings from a Drowning World

Helen E. Mundler

doi:10.1017/9781800108080

The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels

Rewritings from a Drowning World

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Helen E. Mundler, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: December 2022
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781800108080
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800108080

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts
Series:: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture

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Breaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing their concern with climate change within the wider crises of the Anthropocene.

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Rewritings from a Drowning World

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-v

Epigraph
pp vi-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-ix

List of Abbreviations
pp x-x

Introduction
pp 1-12

1 - An Odd Sort of Cli-Fi? Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow
pp 13-36

2 - “Hadn’t mankind done it before—started from scratch?” Reinterpreting Visions of Past and Future in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy
pp 37-64

3 - Watering Down? Clare Morrall’s When the Floods Came
pp 65-88

4 - The Archive and After: A Kaleidoscopic Reading of Maggie Gee’s The Flood
pp 89-112

Conclusion
pp 113-116

Works Cited
pp 117-126

Index
pp 127-132

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