Anthropocene Reading

Literary History in Geologic Times

AvTobias Menely,Jesse Oak Taylor

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and critical method.Entering into conversation with geologists and geographers, this volume reinterprets the cultural past in relation to the anthropogenic transformation of the Earth system while showcasing how literary analysis may help us conceptualize this geohistorical event. The contributors examine how a range of literary texts, from The Tempest to contemporary dystopian novels to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, mediate the convergence of the social institutions, energy regimes, and planetary systems that support the reproduction of life. They explore the long-standing dialogue between imaginative literature and the earth sciences and show how scientists, novelists, and poets represent intersections of geological and human timescales, the deep past and a posthuman future, political exigency and the carbon cycle.Accessibly written and representing a range of methodological perspectives, the essays in this volume consider what it means to read literary history in the Anthropocene.Contributors include Juliana Chow, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Thomas H. Ford, Anne-Lise François, Noah Heringman, Matt Hooley, Stephanie LeMenager, Dana Luciano, Steve Mentz, Benjamin Morgan, Justin Neuman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Derek Woods.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:AnthropoScene
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271078731

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Tobias Menely is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice.Jesse Oak Taylor is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle and the author of The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf.

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“Anthropocene Reading demonstrates why the era of what some are also calling the ‘Great Acceleration’ reaches into and affects so many fields, sciences, and disciplines.”—Jonathan Hahn Sierra

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ContentsIntroduction - Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor1Anarky - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen2Enter Anthropocene, Circa 1610 - Steve Mentz3The Anthropocene Reads Buffon; or, Reading Like Geology - Noah Heringman4Punctuating History Circa 1800: The Air of Jane Eyre - Thomas H. Ford5Romancing the Trace: Edward Hitchcock’s Speculative Ichnology - Dana Luciano6Partial Readings: Thoreau’s Studies as Natural History’s Casualties - Juliana Chow7Scale as Form: Thomas Hardy’s Rocks and Stars - Benjamin Morgan8Anthropocene Interruptions: Energy Recognition Scenes and the Myth of Global Cooling - Justin Neuman9Stratigraphy and Empire: Waiting for the Barbarians, Reading Under Duress - Jennifer Wenzel10Reading Vulnerably: Indigeneity and the Scale of Harm - Matt Hooley11Accelerated Reading: Fossil Fuels, Infowhelm, and Archival Life - Derek Woods12Climate Change and the Struggle for Genre - Stephanie LeMenager13Ungiving Time: Reading Lyric by the Light of the Anthropocene - Anne-Lise FrançoisList of ContributorsIndex