British Modernism and the Anthropocene / Oxford English Monographs (PDF)
Experiments with Time
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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...
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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 of
innovative 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 species
extinctions, 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 novels
provide rich resources for rethinking the current environmental crisis, and cultivating new structures of environmental care and concern.
innovative 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 species
extinctions, 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 novels
provide rich resources for rethinking the current environmental crisis, and cultivating new structures of environmental care and concern.
Autoren-Porträt von David Shackleton
David Shackleton is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, having previously taught at the University of Exeter and the University of Oxford. His work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, The Review of English Studies, and Victorian Literature and Culture. He is interested in the power of stories to shape our responses to climate change and the current environmentalcrisis.
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- Autor: David Shackleton
- 2023, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192672282
- ISBN-13: 9780192672285
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2023
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