{"product_id":"anticipatory-environmental-hi-stories-from-antiquity-to-the-anthropocene-9781666921144","title":"Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene studies the interplay of environmental perception and the way societies throughout history have imagined the future state of “nature” and the environments in which coming generations would live. What sorts of knowledge were and are involved in outlining future environments? What kinds of texts and narrative strategies were and are developed and modified over time? How did and do scenarios and narratives of the past shape (hi)stories of the future? This book answers these questions from a diachronic as well as a cross-cultural perspective. It offers an overview of anticipatory environmental (hi)stories and seeks the historical roots of the imagined, emergent worlds of the Anthropocene. By looking at a diverse range of historical evidence that transcends stereotypical utopian and dystopian visions and allows for nuanced insights beyond the dichotomous reservoir of pastoral motifs and apocalyptic narratives, the contributors illustrate the multifaceted character of environmental anticipation across the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Anticipating Environmental Futures Beyond Pastoral and Apocalyptic Visions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Dialogues Between Times and Places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAstrid Möller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen: An Anticipatory Narrative in Galen (Method of Healing V, 12)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Petit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. The Past Is a Foreign Environment: Some Observations on Roman Wetland Drainage in Ancient and Modern Discourse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJasmin Hettinger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender (1579)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana G. Barnes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature: Chim Bacab’s Flower of Memory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles M. Pigott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Extinction and Conservation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Feeling Like a Species: The Environmental Future in Lucretius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Hutchins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch’s Animal Treatises\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Schliephake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. William Temple Hornaday’s Haunting Vision of a Wildlife Apocalypse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory J. Dehler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Anticipating Extinction: Mammoths, Elephants, and the Late-19th-Century Ivory Trade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca J. H. Woods\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Narrating Civilizational Collapse in the Anthropocene: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway’s The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLena Pfeifer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. Urban Environments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Sensing Noise, Sensing Space: Environmental Perceptions and the Impact on Future Urban Space in Germany and the United Kingdom (1900–1930)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeiner Stahl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. The Arcologies of Paolo Soleri: Unbuilt Futures from the Past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerge Leopold Middendorf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. Utopia’s User Interface: Geoengineering, Smart Cities, and Glass Life in Niklas Maak’s Novel Technophoria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelga G. Braunbeck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV. Climate(s) and Materialities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. Solastalgia, Future Memory, and Polluted Landscapes in Lucan’s Bellum Civile 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarrel Janzen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Nuclear Winter: Science, Fiction, and Temporal Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Dunk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. ‘Nature in Order’ or Human Agency? Visions of the Future in the Long Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Climate Change Discourse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalko Schnicke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17. Explaining Climate Change and Predicting Its Impacts: The Popularization of Brückner’s Theory on Climate Variations as an Anticipatory Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarolin Wetjen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18. Ecology in a Loop: Cyclical History and Alternative Epistemologies in Ella Hickson’s Oil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Riedelsheimer and Leila Michelle Vaziri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042019508567,"sku":"9781666921144","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anticipatory-environmental-hi-stories-from-antiquity-to-the-anthropocene-9781666921144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}