Early Anthropocene literature in Britain, 1750-1884

著者

• Reno, Seth (Seth T.)

書誌事項

Early Anthropocene literature in Britain, 1750-1884

Seth T. Reno

（Literatures, cultures, and the environment）

Palgrave Macmillan, c2020

• : hbk.

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an "early Anthropocene" in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth Reno shows how literary writers of the Industrial Era borrowed from scientists to capture the changes they witnessed to weather, climate, and other systems. Poets linked the hellish flames of industrial furnaces to the magnificent, geophysical force of volcanic explosions. Novelists and painters depicted cloud formations and polluted urban atmospheres as part of the emerging discipline of climate science. In so doing, the subjects of Reno's study-some famous, some more obscure-gave form to a growing sense of humans as geophysical agents, capable of reshaping Earth itself. Situated at the interaction of literary studies, environmental studies, and science studies, Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain tells the story of how writers heralded, and wrestled with, Britain's role in sparking the now-familiar "epoch of humans."

目次

EARTH 1. The Cradle of the Anthropocene Outline of the Book Rethinking Earth: Deep Time and the Deep Space Sublime Remaking Earth: The Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions Looking to the Skies: Early Climatology and the Science of Global Warming FIRE 2. Volcanoes and Industrialization in Early Anthropocene Literature Volcanoes and Industry in the Eighteenth Century Laki, Tambora, and the Damnable Picturesque Volcanoes and Industry in the Nineteenth Century Krakatoa and Climate Science The Human Volcano WATER 3. Rivers, Canals, and Commerce in the Early Anthropocene Coal, Canals, and the River Tyne Ecotourism and Conservation in the Lake District Dirty Father Thames Rivers as Liquid History AIR 4. Clouds and Climate Change in the Nineteenth Century Clouds and Early Climatology Science and Futurity: Literary Clouds Cloud Art: Turner and Constable Endurance and Sustainability: The Wordsworths' Hopeful Vision Manufactured Clouds in the Late Nineteenth Century The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Epilogue: Modernism and the Anthropocene Time and Weather in Eliot and Woolf Conclusion

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC01890604
• ISBN:
  • 9783030532451
• 出版国コード: xx
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: [S.l.]
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 246 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 820.93509034
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English literature -- 19th century -- History and cricitism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Human ecology in literature
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB05780462