Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis

Tatiana Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” and the editor of the Environment, Health, and Well-being series at Michigan State University Press. She is the author of Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature and the editor of Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility; Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste; and Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis.

• ContentsIntroductionChapter One. Weather: Energy, Meteorology, and the Birth of Climate Change in Nineteenth-Century FictionChapter Two. Science: Scientists / Science Tropes, Climatic Darwinism, and the Future in Climate Change FictionChapter Three. Religion: Eco-Theology and Biblical Imagery in Climate Change FictionChapter Four. The Postcolonial: Environmental Racism, Fragmentation of the World, and Survival in Climate Change FictionAfterword. Coronavirus Lessons for Climate Change ProcrastinationNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

“In Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis, Konrad has made a significant contribution to ecocritical literature, providing an engaging and innovative approach to a specific genre—climate change fiction. The climate fiction selections Konrad analyzes augment readers’ understanding of climate change and its ramifications, and she buttresses each chapter’s arguments with substantial scholarship. This work will appeal to ecocritics and literary scholars alike.”—Robin Murray, professor emeritus of English, Eastern Illinois University, author of Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen, coauthored by Joseph K. Heumann, professor emeritus Eastern Illinois University