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Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering
an "early Anthropocene" in the literature, art, and science of
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized
around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth
Reno shows how literary writers of the Industrial Era borrowed from
scientists to capture the changes they witnessed to weather,
climate, and other systems. Poets linked the hellish flames of
industrial furnaces to the magnificent, geophysical force of
volcanic explosions. Novelists and painters depicted cloud
formations and polluted urban atmospheres as part of the emerging
discipline of climate science. In so doing, the subjects of Reno's
study-some famous, some more obscure-gave form to a growing sense
of humans as geophysical agents, capable of reshaping Earth itself.
Situated at the interaction of literary studies, environmental
studies, and science studies, Early Anthropocene Literature in
Britain tells the story of how writers heralded, and wrestled with,
Britain's role in sparking the now-familiar "epoch of humans."
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