Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 214 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780192672292
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0192672290
Series Statement:
Oxford English Monographs
Content:
This book explores the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene. It explores how British modernists used forms of narrative breakdown and fragmentation to represent--or fail to represent--a global crisis and epoch beyond human scales of history
Content:
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene - a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth century was marked by environmental transformations that were so complex and happened on such great scales that they defied representation. Modernist novelists responded with a range ofinnovative narrative forms that started to make environmental crisis on a planetary scale visible. Paradoxically, however, it is their failures to represent such a crisis that achieve the greatest success.David Shackleton explores how British modernists employed types of narrative breakdown - including fragmentation and faltering passages devoid of events - to expose the limitations of human schemes of meaning, negotiate the relationship between different scales and types of time, produce knowledge of ecological risk, and register various forms of non-human agency. Situating modernism in the context of fossil fuel energy systems, plantation monocultures, climate change, and speciesextinctions, Shackleton traces how H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, Olive Moore, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys undertook experiments with time in their novels that refigure history and the historical situations into which they were thrown. Ultimately, British Modernism and the Anthropocene shows how modernist novelsprovide rich resources for rethinking the current environmental crisis, and cultivating new structures of environmental care and concern
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Modernism and the Anthropocene -- 1 H. G. Wells, Geology, and Ecological Risk -- 2 D. H. Lawrence and Nietzsche's Thought of Eternal Recurrence -- 3 Olive Moore's Queer Ecology -- 4 Virginia Woolf and the Pageant of History -- 5 Jean Rhys's Plantation Modernism -- Conclusion: Modernist World-Ecology -- Images Used by Permission -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192857743
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shackleton, David, 1986 - British Modernism and the Anthropocene Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780192857743
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0192857746
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Großbritannien
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Moderne
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Anthropozän
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