Early Anthropocene literature in Britain, 1750-1884 / Seth T. Reno.
Early Anthropocene literature in Britain, 1750-1884 / Seth T. Reno.
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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G 2020/4168
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English
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xvi, 246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Contents
1. The Cradle of the Anthropocene -- 2. Volcanoes and Industrialization in Early Anthropocene Literature -- 3. Rivers, Canals, and Commerce in the Early Anthropocene -- 4. Clouds and Climate Change in the Nineteenth Century -- Epilogue: Modernism and the Anthropocene.
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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[2020]
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This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an "early Anthropocene" in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth Reno shows how literary writers of the Industrial Era borrowed from scientists to capt...
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Early Anthropocene literature in Britain, 1750-1884 / Seth T. Reno.
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Literatures, cultures, and the environment
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/4168
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74VKaMLPPJXl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMLPPJXl
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9783030532451
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820.93509034
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991024349019002626
