Early Anthropocene literature in Britain, 1750-1884
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Early Anthropocene literature in Britain, 1750-1884
(Literatures, cultures, and the environment)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
- : hbk.
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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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