Research Catalog

Title

Anthropocene reading : literary history in geologic times / edited by Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor.

Publication

• University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Menely, Tobias
• Taylor, Jesse O.

Description

265 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Considers the implications of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record, for literary history and critical method. Explores the status of reading in the history of geology, and of geohistory in literature"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series

Uniform Title

AnthropoScene.

Subject

• Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Ecocriticism
• Geology in literature
• Literature > Theory, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor -- Anarky / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Enter Anthropocene, circa 1610 / Steve Mentz -- The Anthropocene reads Buffon, or, Reading like geology / Noah Heringman -- Punctuating history circa 1800 : the air of Jane Eyre / Thomas H. Ford -- Romancing the trace : Edward Hitchcock's speculative ichnology / Dana Luciano -- Partial readings : Thoreau's studies as natural history's casualties / Juliana Chow -- Scale as form : Thomas Hardy's rocks and stars / Benjamin Morgan -- Anthropocene interruptions : energy recognition scenes and the global cooling myth / Justin Neuman -- Stratigraphy and empire : Waiting for the barbarians, reading under duress / Jennifer Wenzel -- Reading vulnerably : indigeneity and the scale of harm / Matt Hooley -- Accelerated reading : fossil fuels, infowhelm, and archival life / Derek Woods -- Climate change and the struggle for genre / Stephanie LeMenager -- Ungiving time : reading lyric by the light of the Anthropocene / Anne-Lise François.

Call Number

JFE 17-11624

ISBN

• 9780271078731
• 0271078731
• 9780271078724
• 0271078723

LCCN

• 2017025913
• 40027622655

OCLC

985078340

Title

Anthropocene reading : literary history in geologic times / edited by Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor.

Publisher

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series

AnthropoScene.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Menely, Tobias, editor.

Taylor, Jesse O., editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40027622655

Research Call Number

JFE 17-11624