The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene

by John Parham (Editor)

The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity's alteration of the its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can address the social, cultural, and philosophical questions posed by the Anthropocene. This volume addresses the old and new literary forms - from novels, plays, poetry, and essays to exciting and evolving genres such as 'cli-fi', experimental poetry, interspecies design, gaming, weird, ecotopian and petro-fiction, and 'new' nature writing. Studies range from the United States to India, from Palestine to Scotland, while addressing numerous global signifiers or consequences of the catastrophe, extinction, 'fossil capital', warming, politics, ethics, interspecies relations, deep time, and Earth. This unique Companion offers a compelling account of how to read literature through the Anthropocene and of how literature might yet help us imagine a better world.

340 pages, Paperback

Published August 19, 2021

Reviews

[André Bailão · Rating 4 out of 5]

a rare example of an edited volume in which all of the chapters are interesting! it covers several important subjects and themes on the Anthropocene and the Humanities and it is very interdisciplinary.