{"product_id":"how-the-earth-feels-9781478025702","title":"How the Earth Feels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow the Earth Feels\u003c\/i\u003e Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and other works, Luciano reveals how geology catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world. She shows that understanding the earth’s history geologically involved confronting the dynamic nature of inorganic matter over vast spans of time, challenging preconceived notions of human agency. Nineteenth-century Americans came to terms with these changes through a fusion of fact and imagination that Luciano calls geological fantasy. Geological fantasy transformed the science into a sensory experience, sponsoring affective and even erotic connections to the matter of the earth. At the same time, it was often used to justify accounts of evolution that posited a modern, civilized,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tracking the strange pleasures and anxieties around geologic thinking in literary texts, popular culture, and scientific disciplines, Dana Luciano beautifully renders how time is felt and experienced at different scales and intensities. Her account of how biopolitics underwrote the pleasingly terrifying view of deep time as expressed by the fossil record is a signature accomplishment. \u003ci\u003eHow the Earth Feels\u003c\/i\u003e makes a stunningly original contribution. I savored every sentence in this book.” -- Stephanie Foote, author of * The Parvenu’s Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism *\u003cbr\u003e“This wide-ranging book takes geology as nothing less than the foundation of modernity, a form of world-making extending from the nineteenth century to our own time, featuring the giddy fantasies of racism and colonialism as much as the rigors of a new science. Empiricism and materialism double here as biopolitics. Clear-eyed, lucid, timely.” -- Wai Chee Dimock, author of * Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The “Fashionable Science”  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. “The Infinite Go-Before of the Present”: Geological Time, Worldmaking, and Race in the Nineteenth Century  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Unsettled Ground: Indigenous Prophecy, Geological Fantasy, and the New Madrid Earthquakes  57\u003cbr\u003e 3. Romancing the Trace: Ichnology, Affect, Matter  87\u003cbr\u003e 4. Matters of Spirit: Vibrant Materiality and White Femme Geophilia  114\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Natural History of Freedom: Blackness, Geomorphology, Worldmaking  137\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Ishmael’s Anthropocene: Geological Fantasy in the Twenty-First Century  171\u003cbr\u003e Notes  181\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  211\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409018757463,"sku":"9781478025702","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025702.jpg?v=1730505116","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-the-earth-feels-9781478025702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}