Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas Hypothesis

by Vincent Bruyere

Book Overview

In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse.

The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes even featuring the illusion that their canvases are peeling away, vanitas images openly declare their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503638634
• ISBN13: 9781503638631
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.9"