British Modernism and the Anthropocene - Experiments With Time

This book 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.

List of contents

• 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


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

David Shackleton is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, having previously taught at the University of Exeter and the University of Oxford. His work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, The Review of English Studies, and Victorian Literature and Culture. He is interested in the power of stories to shape our responses to climate change and the current environmental crisis.

Summary

This book 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.

Additional text

The monograph argues that different aspects of modernist experiments with time and history evince their environmental concerns and politics, which, once recognized, can 'provide rich resources for rethinking the current environmental crisis'.

Product details

• Authors: David Shackleton, David (Lecturer in English Literature Shackleton, David (Senior Lecturer in English Lite Shackleton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2023
• EAN: 9780192857743
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285774-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000