Anglophone literature and culture in the anthropocene /edited by Gina Comos and Caroline Rosenthal. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2019. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Exploring Narrative Forms of the Anthropocene; Chapter One; Chapter Two; USA; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Canada; Chapter Six; Colour Centrefold; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Australia; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Visualizing the Anthropocene; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Contributors; Index

Defined as an ecological epoch in which humans have the most impact on the environment, the Anthropocene poses challenging questions to literary and cultural studies. If, in the Anthropocene, the distinction between nature and culture increasingly collapses, we have to rethink our division between historiography and natural history, as well as notions of the subject and of agency since the Enlightenment.This anthology collects papers from literary and cultural studies that address various issues surrounding the topic. Even though the new epoch seems to require a collective self-understanding a.



9781527534070


English literature--History and cricitism.
Nature in literature.
Nature in popular culture.
Environmentalism in literature.
Environmentalism in popular culture.


Electronic Books.

PR468 / .A545 2019