Climate Change, Interrupted

Barbara Leckie is Professor of English and the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. She is the author of Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2018), among other books, and coordinator for the Carleton Climate Commons.

"Climate Change, Interrupted is a moving and voracious experiment that inspires more than it alarms. I so appreciate the capacious and unexpected circles it draws, and Leckie's sage and spirited company on every page."—Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint "What a treat to read such brilliantly surprising readings of Benjamin, Eliot, and Shelley, braided together in an exquisitely crafted experimental work. Leckie makes a powerful case for the crucial role of the humanities in the climate crisis."—Caroline Levine, author of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network "Highly original, boldly conceived, and extremely thought-provoking. The genuine honesty and directness of Leckie's voice, and the approachability of her experimentation, will ensure this book finds a wide audience."—Kate Flint, author of Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination "This is a dazzling piece of work, and a joy to read—deeply adventurous and undisciplined in the best sense of that term."—Jesse Oak Taylor, coeditor of Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times "The staggering originality of Barbara Leckie's Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time rests upon the title's most innocuous term: representation.... Climate Change, Interrupted unforgettably activates its own claims on an aesthetic level."—Shawna Ross, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment "It is difficult to do justice here to the complexity, richness, and fascination of [Leckie's] multilayered reading [of Frankenstein], which beautifully weaves together at the end of the book the many threads running in and out of its chapters: interruption, pause, representation, warning, and climate."—Deanna Kreisel, Modern Language Quarterly