Anthropocene reading : literary history in geologic times / edited by Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menely, Tobias, editor.

Taylor, Jesse O., editor.

Series:

AnthropoScene

AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Ecocriticism.

Geology in literature.

Literature--Theory, etc.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

265 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Considers the implications of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record, for literary history and critical method. Explores the status of reading in the history of geology, and of geohistory in literature"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Anarky / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Enter Anthropocene, circa 1610 / Steve Mentz

The Anthropocene reads Buffon, or, Reading like geology / Noah Heringman

Punctuating history circa 1800 : the air of Jane Eyre / Thomas H. Ford

Romancing the trace : Edward Hitchcock's speculative ichnology / Dana Luciano

Partial readings : Thoreau's studies as natural history's casualties / Juliana Chow

Scale as form : Thomas Hardy's rocks and stars / Benjamin Morgan

Anthropocene interruptions : energy recognition scenes and the myth of global cooling / Justin Neuman

Stratigraphy and empire : waiting for the barbarians, reading under duress / Jennifer Wenzel

Reading vulnerably : indigeneity and the scale of harm / Matt Hooley

Accelerated reading : fossil fuels, infowhelm, and archival life / Derek Woods

Climate change and the struggle for genre / Stephanie LeMenager

Ungiving time : reading lyric by the light of the Anthropocene / Anne-Lise François.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271078731

0271078731

9780271078724

0271078723

OCLC:

985078340