Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics Menely Tobias
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics Menely Tobias In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long…
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Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics Menely Tobias
In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world making. Incorporating new sciences into ancient literary genres, these ambitious poems aspired to encompass what the eighteenth-century author James Thomson called the "system . . . Menely's central archive is English poetry written between John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" (1807)-a momentous century and a half during which Britain, emerging from a crisis intensified by the Little Ice Age, established the largest empire in world history and instigated the Industrial Revolution.
entire." Thus they offer a unique record of geohistory, Britain's epochal transition from an agrarian society, buffeted by
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