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

Other author/creatorMenely, Tobias editor.
Other author/creatorTaylor, Jesse O. editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice ©2017
Description265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
AnthropoScene. ^A1384728
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2017025913
ISBN9780271078731 (paperback alkaline paper)
ISBN0271078731 (paperback alkaline paper)
ISBN9780271078724 (hardcover alkaline paper)
ISBN0271078723 (hardcover alkaline paper)
Standard identifier# 40027622655

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Joyner General Stacks PN441 .A73 2017 ✔ Available Place Hold