Anthropocene reading literary history in geologic times / edited by Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor.

Other author Menely, Tobias.
Other author Taylor, Jesse O.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Description265 pages ; 23 cm
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SeriesAnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
Contents Anarky / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Enter Anthropocene, circa 1610 / Steve Mentz -- The Anthropocene reads Buffon, or, Reading like geology / Noah Heringman -- Punctuating history circa 1800 : the air of Jane Eyre / Thomas H. Ford -- Romancing the trace : Edward Hitchcock's speculative ichnology / Dana Luciano -- Partial readings : Thoreau's studies as natural history's casualties / Juliana Chow -- Scale as form : Thomas Hardy's rocks and stars / Benjamin Morgan -- Anthropocene interruptions : energy recognition scenes and the myth of global cooling / Justin Neuman -- Stratigraphy and empire : waiting for the barbarians, reading under duress / Jennifer Wenzel -- Reading vulnerably : indigeneity and the scale of harm / Matt Hooley -- Accelerated reading : fossil fuels, infowhelm, and archival life / Derek Woods -- Climate change and the struggle for genre / Stephanie LeMenager -- Ungiving time : reading lyric by the light of the Anthropocene / Anne-Lise François.
Abstract "Considers the implications of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record, for literary history and critical method. Explores the status of reading in the history of geology, and of geohistory in literature"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017025913
ISBN9780271078731 (softcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780271078724 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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