1st Edition
The Anthropocene Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities
Introduction: The Anthropocene and the Humanities
Seth T. Reno
Part 1: Approaches
Chapter 1: The Deep Time Life Kit
Lisa Ottum
Chapter 2: The Two Households: Economy and Ecology
Scott R. MacKenzie
Chapter 3: Energy and the Anthropocene
Kent Linthicum
Chapter 4: Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice: Reading Resistance in Twentieth-Century Indigenous Literature
Rebecca Macklin
Chapter 5: The World is Burning: Racialized Regimes of Eco-Terror and the Anthropocene as Eurocene
Nicolás Juárez
Chapter 6: Trans*Plantationocene
Nicholas Tyler Reich
Chapter 7: The Anthropocene and Critical Method
Stephen Tedeschi
Part 2: Contexts
Chapter 8: "One Life" and One Death: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
Matthew Rowney
Chapter 9: Henry David Thoreau: A New Anthropocenic Perspective
Robert Klevay
Chapter 10: It’s the End of the World: Can We Know It?
Tobias Wilson-Bates
Chapter 11: Orlando in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Changing Times
Naomi Perez
Chapter 12: Corporeal Matters: J.P. Clark’s The Wives’ Revolt and the Embodied Politics of the Anthropocene
Kimberly Skye Richards
Chapter 13: What Global South Critics Do
Antonette Talaue-Arogo
Chapter 14: Queering the Modest Witness in the Chthulucene: Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne (a New Weird Case Study)
Kristin Girten
Chapter 15: Contemporary Cli-fi as Anthropocene Literature: Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140
Seth T. Reno
Biography
Seth T. Reno is Distinguished Research Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery. He is author of Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884 (2020) and Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788–1853 (2019); editor of Romanticism and Affect Studies (2018); and coeditor of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (2016). He has also published dozens of journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, art, and science.
