1st Edition
The Anthropocene Sublime in Literature Immanence and Entanglement from Romanticism to Digitality
Acknowledgments
1 – Introduction: Anthropocene Antinomies
Crisis Overload
Sublime Prehistory
Figuring Antinomy
2 – Impossible Totalities: Sublime Modalities of the Romantic Anthropocene
Terminal Excess
Romantic Sublimities
Material Mountains
The Romantic Anthropocene
Environmental Exteriorization
Mapping Technologies
From Romanticism to Digitality
3 – ‘Blank Naught-At-All’: Coleridge, Kafka, and the Failures of Transcendence
Representation’s Limits
Mechanico-Corpuscular Philosophy
Alienated Transcendence
The Sublime Castle
Technological Otherness
4 – Sublime Abjection: Reconciling Hybridity in Frankenstein and the Xenogenesis Trilogy
Encountering Alterity
Scientific Monstrosity
Parodying the Sublime
Cyborg Xenogenesis
Countering Essentialism
Sublime Assemblages
5 – Ecological Assemblages: The Mediation of Nature in Wordsworth and Powers
Environmental Rifts
Object Relations
Media Ecologies
Vegetal Networks
Tree Technology
Posthuman Limits
6 – “An Emergency of the Spectacular”: Digital Ecologies and the Crisis of the Sublime in Jorie Graham’s Ecopoetry
Anthropocene Entanglement(s)
Nature’s Technicization
Mapping the Anthropocene Sublime
Post-Sublime Poetics
7 – Conclusion: Assessing the Anthropocene Sublime
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Thomas Storey is an early career academic specializing in environmental humanities, climate representation, ecopoetics, and literary studies.
