British modernism and the anthropocene : experiments with time /

"This book assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene—a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth century was marked by environmental transformations that were so complex and happe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shackleton, David, 1986- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:	Oxford English monographs.
Subjects:	Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain > History. English literature > History and criticism. Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique. English literature Modernism (Literature) Great Britain Literature: history & criticism. Literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Modernism and the Anthropocene
1 H. G. Wells, Geology, and Ecological Risk
2 D. H. Lawrence and Nietzsche's Thought of Eternal Recurrence
3 Olive Moore's Queer Ecology
4 Virginia Woolf and the Pageant of History
5 Jean Rhys's Plantation Modernism
Conclusion: Modernist World-Ecology
Images Used by Permission
Bibliography
Index