Modernism and the Anthropocene - Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Edited by Jon Hegglund and John McIntyre - Contributions by Joseph Anderton; Emily Chester; Stuart Christie; Julia Daniel; Ted Howell; Jessica Martell; Robert Savino Oventile; Joshua Schuster; Michael Sloane; Charles Tung; Timothy Wientzen and Glenn Willm

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Mcintyre Hegglund
• Assisted by: Jon Hegglund (Editor), Hegglund Jon (Editor), John McIntyre (Editor), John D. McIntyre (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781498555388
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5538-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; NATURE / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, natural history, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Literature: history & criticism