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Peter Adkins - Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

Av Peter Adkins

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The first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and tipping points in pollution levels, hastening the emergence of an epoch in which humans are the key drivers of planetary change. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene situates Woolf's oeuvre as an important body of work within the literary history of our new planetary period, showing how her fiction and non-fiction engages with questions around climate change, environmental politics, imperial extractivism, eco-philosophy, species difference, natural history and extinction. Bringing together leading and emergent scholars, this collection recognises Woolf as a writer who was profoundly influenced by ecological and environmental questions throughout her life. It brings to light how Woolf responded to the environmental changes of her time and illuminates how her literary innovations continue to offer compelling ways of imagining the nonhuman and the planetary in our present moment.
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Peter Adkins is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes (2022) and co-editor of Virginia Woolf, Europe and Peace: Aesthetics and Theory (2020). He has written widely on modernism, the environment and posthumanism.

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a substantial and significant intervention into several fields of research [...] the editors aim to synthesise previous approaches to the study of Finnegans Wake in order to “offer Joyce studies, and new modernist and nonhuman studies more broadly, new directions for inquiry” […] They achieve that aim exceptionally well [...] The twelve essays collected in the book are both individually and cumulatively impressive […] an exemplary illustration of the need for recalibrated methodologies for literary analysis at a time of planetary ecological crisis.

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