{"product_id":"modernism-and-the-anthropocene-9781498555388","title":"Modernism and the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eModernism 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Anne Raine, University of Ottawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, University of Utah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Modernism and the Emergent Anthropocene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Modernism-Anthropocene Encounters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Revolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in D.H. Lawrence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Vorticism in an Age of Climate Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Hart Crane: A Poet of Our Climate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: “What kind of creature uttered it…?”: A Stratigraphy of Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Planetary Time and Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: “The Modernist Cosmos: Olaf Stapledon, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Crisis of Species\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Modernist Planets and Planetary Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Early Ecology and Climate Change in the Future Histories of H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Second Modernism and the Aesthetics of Temporal Scale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Writing Materials\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Comics: Art of the Anthropocene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Modernism on Ice: Marianne Moore and the Glacial Imagination\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Modernism’s Plastic Futures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Sky and Smoke: Literary Atmospherics in Cary and Ibuse\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040765378903,"sku":"9781498555388","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498555388.jpg?v=1750947773","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-and-the-anthropocene-9781498555388","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}