Routledge Environmental Humanities: A Cultural History of Climate Change
Routledge Environmental Humanities: A Cultural History of Climate Change
Editors: Bristow, Tom and Ford, Thomas H.
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN: 978-1-13-883816-1
Category: Science - Environmental sciences
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics.
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword - DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
- Climates of history, cultures of climate - TOM BRISTOW AND THOMAS H. FORD
- PART I Climates of history
- 1 Voices of endurance: climate and the power of oral history - DEB ANDERSON
- 2 Rethinking seasons: changing climate, changing time - CHRIS O'BRIEN
- 3 The terrestrial envelope: Joseph Fourier's geological speculation - JEROME WHITINGTON
- 4 Melancholy and the continent of fire - TOM BRISTOW AND ANDREA WITCOMB
- 5 The Anthropocene and the long seventeenth century: 1550–1750 - LINDA WILLIAMS
- PART II Climates of writing
- 6 Change beyond belief: fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson's ‘climate change suite’ - JAYNE LEWIS
- 7 Fuels and humans, bíos and zōē - KAREN PINKUS
- 8 The ‘foreign grave’ motif in Victorian medicine and literature - ROSLYN JOLLY
- 9 Climate change and literary history - THOMAS H. FORD
- PART III Climates of politics
- 10 Climate change: politics, excess, sovereignty - NICK MANSFIELD
- 11 Para-religions of climate change: humanity, eco-nihilism, apocalypse - S. ROMI MUKHERJEE
- 12 Litigation, activism, and the paradox of lawfulness in an age of climate change - NICOLE ROGERS
- 13 This is not my beautiful biosphere - TIMOTHY MORTON