Ecocriticism, genre, and climate change: Reading the utopian vision of Kim Stanley Robinson's science in the Capital trilogy

English Studies

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 744-760

  Johns Putra, Adeline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 78149244795     PISSN: 0013838X     EISSN: 17444217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2010.518043     Document Type: Article

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