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In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism,
tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary
history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which
continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world
making. Menely's central archive is English poetry written between
John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and Charlotte Smith's "Beachy
Head" (1807)-a momentous century and a half during which Britain,
emerging from a crisis intensified by the Little Ice Age,
established the largest empire in world history and instigated the
Industrial Revolution. Incorporating new sciences into ancient
literary genres, these ambitious poems aspired to encompass what
the eighteenth-century author James Thomson called the "system . .
. entire." Thus they offer a unique record of geohistory, Britain's
epochal transition from an agrarian society, buffeted by climate
shocks, to a modern coal-powered nation. Climate and the Making of
Worlds is a bracing and sophisticated contribution to ecocriticism,
the energy humanities, and the prehistory of the Anthropocene.
In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism,
tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary
history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which
continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world
making. Menely's central archive is English poetry written between
John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and Charlotte Smith's "Beachy
Head" (1807)-a momentous century and a half during which Britain,
emerging from a crisis intensified by the Little Ice Age,
established the largest empire in world history and instigated the
Industrial Revolution. Incorporating new sciences into ancient
literary genres, these ambitious poems aspired to encompass what
the eighteenth-century author James Thomson called the "system . .
. entire." Thus they offer a unique record of geohistory, Britain's
epochal transition from an agrarian society, buffeted by climate
shocks, to a modern coal-powered nation. Climate and the Making of
Worlds is a bracing and sophisticated contribution to ecocriticism,
the energy humanities, and the prehistory of the Anthropocene.
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.
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.
During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British
poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the
later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in
later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws like
Martin's Act of 1822, which provided protections for livestock. In
The Animal Claim, Tobias Menely links this poetics of sensibility
with Enlightenment political philosophy, the rise of the
humanitarian public, and the fate of sentimentality, as well as
longstanding theoretical questions about voice as a medium of
communication. In the Restoration and eighteenth century,
philosophers emphasized the role of sympathy in collective life and
began regarding the passionate expression humans share with
animals, rather than the spoken or written word, as the elemental
medium of community. Menely shows how poetry came to represent this
creaturely voice and, by virtue of this advocacy, facilitated the
development of a viable discourse of animal rights in the emerging
public sphere. Placing sensibility in dialogue with classical and
early-modern antecedents as well as contemporary animal studies,
The Animal Claim uncovers crucial connections between
eighteenth-century poetry; theories of communication; and
post-absolutist, rights-based politics.
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