Wild Anthropocene - Literature and Multispecies Justice in Deep Time

Wild Anthropocene demonstrates how literature illuminates progressive solutions to Anthropocene challenges. It will be a useful addition to theoretical discussions on the Anthropocene for scholars, researchers and students in the environmental humanities, literary studies, ecocriticism and environmental philosophy.

List of contents

Introduction: Towards a Wild Anthropocene: Imagining Multispecies Justice in Deep Time 1. Robinson Jeffers, Deep Time and the Geological Sublime 2. Angular Unconformities: Environmental Justice in the Poetry of Don McKay and Dionne Brand 3. Imagining Extinction in Deep Time 4. Reproductive Rights in the Context of Deep Time 5. Viral Capitalism, Tangled Trees and the Future of Biodiversity

About the author

Louise Economides is a Professor of English and Director of Literature and the Environment at the University of Montana, USA.

Summary

Wild Anthropocene demonstrates how literature illuminates progressive solutions to Anthropocene challenges. It will be a useful addition to theoretical discussions on the Anthropocene for scholars, researchers and students in the environmental humanities, literary studies, ecocriticism and environmental philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Economides, Economides Louise
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032153902
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215390-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; FICTION / Literary, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Essays, NATURE / Ecology, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, Biodiversity, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Conservation of the environment, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Botany & plant sciences, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Botany and plant sciences, Environmental policy and protocols