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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
