Modernism and the Anthropocene
Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2021
264 pages
978-1-4985-5539-5 (ISBN)
Description
Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity's increasing domination of the natural world.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-5539-5 (9781498555395)
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Jon Hegglund | John McIntyre
Modernism and the Anthropocene
Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature
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Jon Hegglund is associate professor of English at Washington State University.
John McIntyre is associate professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island.
John McIntyre is associate professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Content
Introduction: Modernism and the Emergent Anthropocene
Part I: Modernism-Anthropocene Encounters
Chapter 1: Revolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 2: Vorticism in an Age of Climate Change
Chapter 3: Hart Crane: A Poet of Our Climate
Chapter 4: "What kind of creature uttered it...?": A Stratigraphy of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
Part II: Planetary Time and Space
Chapter 5: "The Modernist Cosmos: Olaf Stapledon, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Crisis of Species
Chapter 6: Modernist Planets and Planetary Modernism
Chapter 7: Early Ecology and Climate Change in the Future Histories of H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon
Chapter 8: Second Modernism and the Aesthetics of Temporal Scale
Part III: Writing Materials
Chapter 9: Comics: Art of the Anthropocene
Chapter 10: Modernism on Ice: Marianne Moore and the Glacial Imagination
Chapter 11: Modernism's Plastic Futures
Chapter 12: Sky and Smoke: Literary Atmospherics in Cary and Ibuse
Part I: Modernism-Anthropocene Encounters
Chapter 1: Revolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 2: Vorticism in an Age of Climate Change
Chapter 3: Hart Crane: A Poet of Our Climate
Chapter 4: "What kind of creature uttered it...?": A Stratigraphy of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable
Part II: Planetary Time and Space
Chapter 5: "The Modernist Cosmos: Olaf Stapledon, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Crisis of Species
Chapter 6: Modernist Planets and Planetary Modernism
Chapter 7: Early Ecology and Climate Change in the Future Histories of H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon
Chapter 8: Second Modernism and the Aesthetics of Temporal Scale
Part III: Writing Materials
Chapter 9: Comics: Art of the Anthropocene
Chapter 10: Modernism on Ice: Marianne Moore and the Glacial Imagination
Chapter 11: Modernism's Plastic Futures
Chapter 12: Sky and Smoke: Literary Atmospherics in Cary and Ibuse
