Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

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."

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Release date:	August 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Seth T Reno
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	246
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-053245-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	3-03-053245-3
Barcode:	9783030532451

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