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Ecological Form brings together leading voices in
nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide
between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these
essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage
problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain
our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in
light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions
with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a
means for generating environmental-and therefore
political-knowledge. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel
to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond,
Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers
conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking
Britain to its global network. Yet the book's most pressing
argument is that this past thought can be a resource for
reimagining the present.
Ecological Form brings together leading voices in
nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide
between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these
essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage
problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain
our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in
light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate "natural" questions
with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a
means for generating environmental-and therefore
political-knowledge. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel
to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond,
Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers
conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking
Britain to its global network. Yet the book's most pressing
argument is that this past thought can be a resource for
reimagining the present.
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 Francois, Noah Heringman, Matt
Hooley, Stephanie LeMenager, Dana Luciano, Steve Mentz, Benjamin
Morgan, Justin Neuman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Derek Woods.
The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in
English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries
between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our
Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the
London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In
the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in
understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and
ecological collapse. The London fog earned the portmanteau ""smog""
in 1905, a significant recognition of what was arguably the first
instance of a climatic phenomenon manufactured by modern industry.
Tracing the path to this awareness opens a critical vantage point
on the Anthropocene, a new geologic age in which the transformation
of humanity into a climate-changing force has not only altered our
physical atmosphere but imbued it with new meanings. The book
examines enduringly popular works--from the novels of Charles
Dickens and George Eliot to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and
the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and
Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings,
and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating
relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead.
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 Francois, Noah Heringman, Matt
Hooley, Stephanie LeMenager, Dana Luciano, Steve Mentz, Benjamin
Morgan, Justin Neuman, Jennifer Wenzel, and Derek Woods.
The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in
English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries
between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our
Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the
London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In
the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in
understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and
ecological collapse. The London fog earned the portmanteau ""smog""
in 1905, a significant recognition of what was arguably the first
instance of a climatic phenomenon manufactured by modern industry.
Tracing the path to this awareness opens a critical vantage point
on the Anthropocene, a new geologic age in which the transformation
of humanity into a climate-changing force has not only altered our
physical atmosphere but imbued it with new meanings. The book
examines enduringly popular works--from the novels of Charles
Dickens and George Eliot to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and
the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and
Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings,
and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating
relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead.
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