Contents
Introduction - Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor
1 Anarky - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
2 Enter Anthropocene, Circa 1610 - Steve Mentz
3 The Anthropocene Reads Buffon; or, Reading Like Geology - Noah Heringman
4 Punctuating History Circa 1800: The Air of Jane Eyre - Thomas H. Ford
5 Romancing the Trace: Edward Hitchcock’s Speculative Ichnology - Dana Luciano
6 Partial Readings: Thoreau’s Studies as Natural History’s Casualties - Juliana Chow
7 Scale as Form: Thomas Hardy’s Rocks and Stars - Benjamin Morgan
8 Anthropocene Interruptions: Energy Recognition Scenes and the Myth of Global Cooling - Justin Neuman
9 Stratigraphy and Empire: Waiting for the Barbarians, Reading Under Duress - Jennifer Wenzel
10 Reading Vulnerably: Indigeneity and the Scale of Harm - Matt Hooley
11 Accelerated Reading: Fossil Fuels, Infowhelm, and Archival Life - Derek Woods
12 Climate Change and the Struggle for Genre - Stephanie LeMenager
13 Ungiving Time: Reading Lyric by the Light of the Anthropocene - Anne-Lise François
List of Contributors
Index
Tobias Menely is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice.
Jesse Oak Taylor is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle and the author of The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf.
“Anthropocene Reading demonstrates why the era of what some are
also calling the ‘Great Acceleration’ reaches into and affects so
many fields, sciences, and disciplines.”—Jonathan Hahn Sierra
“Though responding to a single challenge, the essays vary
immensely, but it is pleasant to see all contributors thinking
creatively and tentatively, sometimes driven to the esoteric
extremes from which only critical neologisms can rescue them. The
experiment is interesting and obviously relevant for critical
theory in a changing world.”—G. D. MacDonald Choice
“A rich collection of essays, their span befitting the scale and
diversity of an Earth being transformed. Ranging as it does from
the crowded present into deep time, where the most immediate and
personal of human stories intermesh with planetary narrative,
Anthropocene Reading is a deeply thought-provoking volume.”—Jan A.
Zalasiewicz, author of The Goldilocks Planet: The Four Billion Year
Story of Earth’s Climate
“An ambitious and exhilarating collection. It takes the
Anthropocene debates well beyond their familiar terrain. The book
will appeal to readers from a host of disciplines, from geology to
history, geography, and literary studies.”—Rob Nixon, author of
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
“The hypothesis of the Anthropocene as forwarded by earth
scientists registers a moment of ecological crisis and an
unavoidable challenge to critical and historical practice in
literary studies. This collection of experimental forays meets that
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of the human age. Both erudite and engaged, the contributors offer
essential scholarship for the years to come.”—Eric Gidal, author of
Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age
“Elaborating on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s linking of human and earth
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Reading is a major contribution to ecocriticism and a delight to
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“All told, the 13 contributions offer varied and stimulating
studies displaying how literary methods can effectively
interrogate, reframe, and explicate the multi-faceted qualities and
character of the Anthropocene.”—Justin Westgate Antipodes
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