British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene: Writing Tambora 1st Edition by David Higgins 3319678949 9783319678948

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• ISBN 10: 3319678949
• ISBN 13: 9783319678948
• Author: David

This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts – by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbett, Sir Stamford Raffles, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley – in relation to the global crisis produced by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. By connecting these texts to current debates in the environmental humanities, it reveals the value of a historicized approach to the Anthropocene. British Romanticism, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene examines how Romantic texts affirm the human capacity to shape and make sense of a world with which we are profoundly entangled and at the same time represent our humiliation by powerful elemental forces that we do not fully comprehend. It will appeal not only to scholars of British Romanticism, but to anyone interested in the relationship between culture and climate change.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Abstract

Environmental Catastrophe and Disaster

Romanticism, Materialism, Nihilism

Climate Change Studies and Anthropocene Historicism

Chapter 2 Textuality, Empire, and the Catastrophic Assemblage: Sir Stamford Raffles and the Tambora

Abstract

Introduction

The Original Narrative: Context and Composition

The Original Narrative: Placing Tambora

Tambora and The History of Java

Raffles’s Memoir and the Politics of Catastrophe

Chapter 3 Geohistory, Epistemology, and Extinction: Byron and the Shelleys in 1816

Abstract

Introduction

Deep Time and Global Cooling

Frankenstein, Global Cooling, and the Posthuman

Humans, Animals, Elements

‘Mont Blanc’ and the Problem of Extinction

Chapter 4 The ‘Year Without a Summer’ and the Politics of Climate Change

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