The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes

by Peter Adkins

Book Overview

The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human species. Drawing on ecocritical analysis, posthumanist theory, archival research and environmental history, this book resituates key works of modernist fiction within the ecological moment of the early twentieth century, a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474481973
• ISBN13: 9781474481977
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"