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Climate and the making of worlds : toward a geohistorical poetics / Tobias Menely.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menely, Tobias, author.
- Series:
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
- Ecology in literature.
- Seasons in literature.
- Climatic changes in literature.
- Human ecology in literature.
- Climate and civilization--Great Britain.
- Climate and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- In this text, 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Introduction: Stratigraphic Criticism
- 1. “Earth Trembled”: Paradise Lost, the Little Ice Age, and the Climate of Allegory
- 2. “The Works of Nature”: Descriptive Poetry and the History of the Earth in Thomson’s The Seasons
- 3. Mine, Factory, and Plantation: The Industrial Georgic and the Crisis of Description
- 4. Uncertain Atmospheres: Romantic Lyricism in the Time of the Anthropocene
- Afterword: The Literary Past and the Planetary Future
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliographic Note
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9780226776316
- 022677631X
- OCLC:
- 1255229314
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