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British modernism and the Anthropocene : experiments with time / David Shackleton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shackleton, David, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Oxford English monographs.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford English monographs
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain--History.
- Modernism (Literature).
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This text explores the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene. It explores how British modernists used forms of narrative breakdown and fragmentation to represent-or fail to represent-a global crisis and epoch beyond human scales of history.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Modernism and the Anthropocene
- 1 H. G. Wells, Geology, and Ecological Risk
- 2 D. H. Lawrence and Nietzsche's Thought of Eternal Recurrence
- 3 Olive Moore's Queer Ecology
- 4 Virginia Woolf and the Pageant of History
- 5 Jean Rhys's Plantation Modernism
- Conclusion: Modernist World-Ecology
- Images Used by Permission
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Shackleton, David British Modernism and the Anthropocene
- ISBN:
- 0-19-194862-4
- 0-19-267228-2
- 0-19-267229-0
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