LEADER 02131nam 22003493a 450 001 9910832997203321 005 20231108184546.0 035 $a(CKB)5580000000514220 035 $a(ScCtBLL)5293199e-181b-485d-a691-52f3560bfd44 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000514220 100 $a20231108i20232022 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Modernist Anthropocene : $eNonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes /$fPeter Adkins 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-4744-8199-X 330 $aThe 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 period in which new configurations of the relationship between human life and the natural world were migrating between the sciences, philosophy and literary culture. The author makes the case that the early twentieth century is pivotal in our understanding of the Anthropocene both as a planetary epoch and a critical concept. In doing so, he positions James Joyce, Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf as theorists of the modernist Anthropocene, showing how their oeuvres are shaped by, and actively respond to, changing ideas about the nonhuman that continue to reverberate today. 606 $aLiterary Criticism / American$2bisacsh 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLiterary Criticism / American 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 700 $aAdkins$b Peter$01273215 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910832997203321 996 $aThe Modernist Anthropocene$92999981 997 $aUNINA