Modernism and the Anthropocene by Jon Hegglund

Modernism and the Anthropocene by Jon Hegglund

Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity's increasing domination of the natural world.

Within the growing field of ecocritical modernist studies, examining literary modernism’s relationship to the Anthropocene is a particularly urgent taskBy theorizing twentieth-century modernisms as literatures of an ‘emergent Anthropocene,’ this book opens an important conversation about the extent to which modernist aesthetic practices—from experimental novels and poetics to sci-fi, comics, and popular science writing—anticipate current concerns about the scale of human impact on the planet, the entanglement of human with more-than-human agencies, and the discrepancy between phenomenological, historical, and planetary timescales. Representing a range of critical perspectives, the chapters offer thought-provoking starting points for further investigation.

-- Anne Raine, University of Ottawa

This important volume spotlights modernist engagement with the nonhuman world. Scholars and students conscious of their unraveling natural setting and strained social context are focusing on just these tensions. Modernism and the Anthropocene succeeds by mingling the ecological turn in modernist studies with the cultural-historical experience of the Anthropocene. The result is a timely contribution for literary scholars, environmental humanists, and students of our unfolding climate emergency.

-- Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, University of Utah

Jon Hegglund is associate professor of English at Washington State University.
John McIntyre is associate professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island.

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ISBN 13	9781498555388
ISBN 10	1498555381
Title	Modernism and the Anthropocene
Author	Jon Hegglund
Series	Ecocritical Theory And Practice
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Lexington Books
Year published	2021-09-15
Number of pages	264
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