Anthropocene Reading

Tobias Menely is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice.Jesse Oak Taylor is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle and the author of The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf.

• ContentsIntroduction - Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor1Anarky - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen2Enter Anthropocene, Circa 1610 - Steve Mentz3The Anthropocene Reads Buffon; or, Reading Like Geology - Noah Heringman4Punctuating History Circa 1800: The Air of Jane Eyre - Thomas H. Ford5Romancing the Trace: Edward Hitchcock’s Speculative Ichnology - Dana Luciano6Partial Readings: Thoreau’s Studies as Natural History’s Casualties - Juliana Chow7Scale as Form: Thomas Hardy’s Rocks and Stars - Benjamin Morgan8Anthropocene Interruptions: Energy Recognition Scenes and the Myth of Global Cooling - Justin Neuman9Stratigraphy and Empire: Waiting for the Barbarians, Reading Under Duress - Jennifer Wenzel10Reading Vulnerably: Indigeneity and the Scale of Harm - Matt Hooley11Accelerated Reading: Fossil Fuels, Infowhelm, and Archival Life - Derek Woods12Climate Change and the Struggle for Genre - Stephanie LeMenager13Ungiving Time: Reading Lyric by the Light of the Anthropocene - Anne-Lise FrançoisList of ContributorsIndex

“Anthropocene Reading demonstrates why the era of what some are also calling the ‘Great Acceleration’ reaches into and affects so many fields, sciences, and disciplines.”—Jonathan Hahn Sierra