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Environmentalism has been prominent in public culture since the early 1960s. The publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring provides a start date; a moment when environmentalism as a cohesive and challenging set of concerns leapt into the news. In the years that followed, the political movement emerged, challenging established politics with a new set of interests and priorities.
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Kerridge, R. (2012). Ecocriticism and the Mission of ‘English’. In: Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230358393_2
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