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Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics

Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tobias MenelyPublish date:2021-06-25Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226776286ISBN-10:022677628XUPC:9780226776286Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, PoetryBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Europe, EuropeanBook Topic:Great Britain, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC5K918K5R
Winner of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies Warren-Brooks Award.

In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world making. Menely's central archive is English poetry written between John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" (1807)--a momentous century and a half during which Britain, emerging from a crisis intensified by the Little Ice Age, established the largest empire in world history and instigated the Industrial Revolution. Incorporating new sciences into ancient literary genres, these ambitious poems aspired to encompass what the eighteenth-century author James Thomson called the "system . . . entire." Thus they offer a unique record of geohistory, Britain's epochal transition from an agrarian society, buffeted by climate shocks, to a modern coal-powered nation. Climate and the Making of Worlds is a bracing and sophisticated contribution to ecocriticism, the energy humanities, and the prehistory of the Anthropocene.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226776286ISBN-10:022677628XUPC:9780226776286Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, PoetryBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Europe, EuropeanBook Topic:Great Britain, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC5K918K5R
Tobias Menely is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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