The Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities
Redaktion: Reno, Seth T.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Perhaps no concept has become dominant in so many fields as rapidly as the Anthropocene. This collection provides truly innovative arguments regarding how and why the Anthropocene concept is important to literature and the humanities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000474336
• Artikelnr.: 62709200

Autorenporträt

Seth T. Reno is Distinguished Research Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery. He is author of Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884 (2020) and Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788-1853 (2019); editor of Romanticism and Affect Studies (2018); and coeditor of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (2016). He has also published dozens of journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, art, and science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Anthropocene and the Humanities
Seth T. Reno
Part 1: Approaches
Chapter 1: The Deep Time Life Kit
Lisa Ottum
Chapter 2: The Two Households: Economics and Ecology
Scott R. MacKenzie
Chapter 3: Energy and the Anthropocene
Kent Linthicum
Chapter 4: Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice: Centering
Indigenous Responses to the Colonial Logics of the Anthropocene
Rebecca Macklin
Chapter 5: The World is Burning: Racialized Regimes of Eco-Terror and the
Anthropocene as Eurocene
Nicolás Juárez
Chapter 6: Trans*Plantationocene
Nicholas Tyler Reich
Chapter 7: The Anthropocene and Critical Method
Stephen Tedeschi
Part 2: Contexts
Chapter 8: "One Life" and One Death: Mary Shelley's The Last Man
Matthew Rowney
Chapter 9: Henry David Thoreau: A New Anthropocenic Persona
Robert Klevay
Chapter 10: It's the End of the World: Can We Know It?
Tobias Wilson-Bates
Chapter 11: Orlando in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Changing Times
Naomi Perez
Chapter 12: Corporeal Matters: J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt and the
Embodied Politics of the Anthropocene
Kimberly Skye Richards
Chapter 13: What Global South Critics Do
Antonette Talaue-Arogo
Chapter 14: Queering the Modest Witness in the Chthulucene: Jeff
VanderMeer's Borne (a New Weird Case Study)
Kristin Girten
Chapter 15: Contemporary Cli-fi as Anthropocene Literature: Kim Stanley
Robinson's New York 2140
Seth T. Reno