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Modernism and the Anthropocene Jon Hegglund

Modernism and the Anthropocene By Jon Hegglund

Modernism and the Anthropocene by Jon Hegglund


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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.

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Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature by Jon Hegglund

Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From more familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity's increasing domination of the natural world.

Modernism and the Anthropocene Reviews

Within the growing field of ecocritical modernist studies, examining literary modernism's relationship to the Anthropocene is a particularly urgent task. By theorizing twentieth-century modernisms as literatures of an 'emergent Anthropocene,' this book opens an important conversation about the extent to which modernist aesthetic practices-from experimental novels and poetics to sci-fi, comics, and popular science writing-anticipate current concerns about the scale of human impact on the planet, the entanglement of human with more-than-human agencies, and the discrepancy between phenomenological, historical, and planetary timescales. Representing a range of critical perspectives, the chapters offer thought-provoking starting points for further investigation.

-- Anne Raine, University of Ottawa

This important volume spotlights modernist engagement with the nonhuman world. Scholars and students conscious of their unraveling natural setting and strained social context are focusing on just these tensions. Modernism and the Anthropocene succeeds by mingling the ecological turn in modernist studies with the cultural-historical experience of the Anthropocene. The result is a timely contribution for literary scholars, environmental humanists, and students of our unfolding climate emergency.

-- Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, University of Utah

About Jon Hegglund

Jon Hegglund is associate professor of English at Washington State University.

John D. McIntyre is associate professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Table 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

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GOR013072589
9781498555388
1498555381
Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature by Jon Hegglund
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Lexington Books
20210927
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