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Anthropocene Fictions - The Novel in a Time of Climate Change (Hardcover)
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Anthropocene Fictions - The Novel in a Time of Climate Change (Hardcover)
Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
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Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the
Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather,
rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction.
This period of observable human impact on the Earth's ecosystems
has been called the Anthropocene Age. The anthropogenic climate
change that has impacted the Earth has also affected our
literature, but criticism of the contemporary novel has not
adequately recognized the literary response to this level of
environmental crisis. Ecocriticism's theories of place and planet,
meanwhile, are troubled by a climate that is neither natural nor
under human control. Anthropocene Fictions is the first systematic
examination of the hundreds of novels that have been written about
anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on climatology, the sociology
and philosophy of science, geography, and environmental economics,
Adam Trexler argues that the novel has become an essential tool to
construct meaning in an age of climate change. The novel expands
the reach of climate science beyond the laboratory or model,
turning abstract predictions into subjectively tangible experiences
of place, identity, and culture. Political and economic
organizations are also being transformed by their struggle for
sustainability. In turn, the novel has been forced to adapt to new
boundaries between truth and fabrication, nature and economies, and
individual choice and larger systems of natural phenomena.
Anthropocene Fictions argues that new modes of inhabiting climate
are of the utmost critical and political importance, when
unprecedented scientific consensus has failed to lead to action.
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