AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series. Anthropocene Reading : : Literary History in Geologic Times / / ed. by Tobias Menely, Jesse Oak Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Chow, Juliana,; Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome,; Ford, Thomas H.,; François, Anne-Lise,; Heringman, Noah,; Hooley, Matt,; LeMenager, Stephanie,; Luciano, Dana,; Menely, Tobias,; Mentz, Steve,; Morgan, Benjamin,; Neuman, Justin,; Taylor, Jesse Oak,; Wenzel, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Menely, Tobias,; Oak Taylor, Jesse,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 3 illustrations

Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and cri...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Anarky
• 2. Enter Anthropocene, Circa 1610
• 3. The Anthropocene Reads Buffon; or, Reading Like Geology
• 4. Punctuating History Circa 1800 The Air of Jane Eyre
• 5. Romancing the Trace Edward Hitchcock’s Speculative Ichnology
• 6. Partial Readings Thoreau’s Studies as Natural History’s Casualties
• 7. Scale as Form Thomas Hardy’s Rocks and Stars
• 8. Anthropocene Interruptions Energy Recognition Scenes and the Global Cooling Myth
• 9. Stratigraphy and Empire Waiting for the Barbarians, Reading Under Duress
• 10. Reading Vulnerably Indigeneity and the Scale of Harm
• 11. Accelerated Reading Fossil Fuels, Infowhelm, and Archival Life
• 12. Climate Change and the Struggle for Genre
• 13. Ungiving Time Reading Lyric by the Light of the Anthropocene
• Contributors
• Index