bookshelves: history, nature
The book's structure, focusing at length on a few particular but varied case studies, gives a useful sense of how issues and attitudes changed in real time. A more comprehensive approach, one that tried to cover every single controversial species or invasion, might not have accomplished that as well. I'm especially provoked by Coates' premise that superficially similar anti-foreigner rhetoric between the arenas of human immigration and plant/animal immigration doesn't necessarily or always mean there is a connection. I went into the book assuming they were more closely tied, but was persuaded otherwise, or at least that the relationship needs to be considered on a case by case basis. ]]>
bookshelves: currently-reading, history, nature
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bookshelves: novels
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bookshelves: novels
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bookshelves: novels, to-read
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bookshelves: novels, to-read
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bookshelves: novels
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Steve
added a quote:
"This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented." — Michel Houellebecq
"This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented." — Michel Houellebecq
bookshelves: stories
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