Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvPeter Adkins,University of Edinburgh) Adkins, Peter (Lecturer in Modernist Literature

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The first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and tipping points in pollution levels, hastening the emergence of an epoch in which humans are the key drivers of planetary change. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene situates Woolf's oeuvre as an important body of work within the literary history of our new planetary period, showing how her fiction and non-fiction engages with questions around climate change, environmental politics, imperial extractivism, eco-philosophy, species difference, natural history and extinction. Bringing together leading and emergent scholars, this collection recognises Woolf as a writer who was profoundly influenced by ecological and environmental questions throughout her life. It brings to light how Woolf responded to the environmental changes of her time and illuminates how her literary innovations continue to offer compelling ways of imagining the nonhuman and the planetary in our present moment.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-31
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieVirginia Woolf – Variations
Antal sidor296
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399516693

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Reading Virginia Woolf in the Anthropocene, Peter AdkinsPART I: IMAGINING CLIMATE1. Virginia Woolf and Anticipations of the Anthropocene, Christina Alt2. Cosmopolitan Anthropocene: The Convergence of Transnationalism and Climatic Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s The Years, Shinjini ChattopadhyayPART II: MATTER AND MATERIALITIES3. Outside the Anthropocene: The Subject of Virginia Woolf, Claire Colebrook4. ‘Mud and dung’: Virginia Woolf’s Environmental Mattering of War, Molly Volanth Hall5. Following the Oil: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Imperial Extractivism, Peter AdkinsPART III: WRITING EXTINCTION6. Hearing Beyond Extinction: The Inhuman Comedy of Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, Rasheed Tazudeen7. The Rat or the Flower? Decomposed Being(s) in the Holograph Draft of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Shilo McGiffPART IV: MORE THAN HUMAN ENCOUNTERS 8. Darwinism, Dogs and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf, Saskia McCracken9. Virginia Woolf’s ‘Bewildering World’, Derek RyanPART V: OUTSIDERS, ASSEMBLAGES AND ACTIVISM10. ‘Suspending the Sky’: Virginia Woolf and the Brazilian Indigenous Worldview of Ailton Krenak, Davi Pinho and Maria A. de Oliveria11. Staging Collective Action for an Anthropocene Audience in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts, Kelly SultzbachIndex