Description: Explores the place of the concept of climate in literature from the classical age to the contemporary.
Brief description: Adeline Johns-Putra is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Surrey. She is author of The History of the Epic (2006) and Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (2001). Her edited books include Process: Landscape and Text (2010) and Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text, and Culture (2017). She was Chair of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, from 2011 to 2015.
Review Quotes: 'The collection provides an informed mapping of the concepts of weather and climate over time and allows for an engaging point of view to breathe new life into urgent cultural discussions.' Leonardo Nolé, Ecozon@