Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines Mc Carthy’s literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our value systems. In a world recovering from global economic crisis and poised on the brink of another, studying the methods by which literature interrogates narratives of inevitability around global economic inequality and eco-disaster is ever more relevant.
Table of Content
Introduction 1. Cars, Trucks, and Horses. Man in the Age of the Machine 2. War and the Wanderer. Epic Violence, Biblical Morality, and the Rise of Empire in
Blood Meridian 3. Professionals. Late Capitalism and the Illegal Drug Trade in
No Country for Old Men and
The Counselor 4. Prophets. Imagining the End of the Anthropocene in
The Road 5. Pilgrims. Nomadism and the Making and Unmaking of the World in The Border Trilogy 6. Death and the Poet. Suttree and Art that Sustains Index
About the author
Lydia R. Cooper is Associate Professor of English at Creighton University
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