Table of Contents

Introduction: What Was A Modern Environment? 1.Grid Modernism: The Built Environment 2. Power Modernism: Modern Energy Regimes 3.Wild Modernism: The Non-Human World 4. Trash Modernism: Waste, By-Product, and Pollution Bibliography Index

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The first guide to key debates and concepts in ecocritical and environmental humanities approaches to modernist literature and culture

About the Author

Michael Rubenstein is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University, USA. He is the author of Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (2010), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Prize and the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize. Justin Neuman is a member of the part-time faculty in the Literature department at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, USA. He is the author of Fictions Beyond Secularism (2014) and is the associate editor of the “Cultural Frames, Framing Culture” book series at the University of Virginia Press.