Modernism and the Anthropocene

Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature

Jon Hegglund, John McIntyre (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5540-1 (ISBN)

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Bringing together work from twelve leading scholars in the field of ecocriticism, Modernism and the Anthropocene explores the diverse ways that early twentieth-century literature initiated far-reaching conversations about the material and non-human world.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	Joseph Anderton, Emily Chester, Stuart Christie
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 220 mm
Gewicht	395 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-5540-3 / 1498555403
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-5540-1 / 9781498555401
Zustand	Neuware