This edited collection brings together twelve essays by leading and upcoming scholars, the aim of which is to contribute critically to conceptions of sustainability from the standpoint of environmental literary scholarship. The book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in ecocriticism and related fields.

Foreword by Gillen D'Arcy WoodEditor's introductionPART I: Discourses of sustainability1 The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill - Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley2 Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture - John Parham3 Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality - Kate Rigby4 Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America - Lucy Bell5 Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison - Joshua Schuster6 The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature - Claire ColebrookPART II: Reading sustainability7 Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy - Dana Phillips8 'The shadow of the future made all the difference': sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy - Chris Pak9 The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods - Adeline Johns-Putra10 A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island - Hannes Bergthaller11 Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining - Matthew Griffiths12 Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi - Louise SquireIndex