Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change

by Adam Trexler

Book Overview

Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth's ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age. The anthropogenic climate change that has impacted the Earth has also affected our literature, but criticism of the contemporary novel has not adequately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813936918
• ISBN13: 9780813936918
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"