Tobias Menely
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics
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Tobias Menely's book "Climate and the Making of Worlds" explores how English poetry from the 17th to the 19th century reflects the impact of the planet on human world-making, offering a unique record of geohistory and Britain's transition from an agrarian society to a modern coal-powered nation.
Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 29 June 2021
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Winner of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts' Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize and the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies Warren-Brooks Award, Tobias Menely's book explores a materialist ecocriticism that traces the imprint of the planetary across a long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings that continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world-making. 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 emerged from a crisis intensified by the Little Ice Age and established the largest empire in world history, as well as instigated the Industrial Revolution. Incorporating new sciences into ancient literary genres, these ambitious poems aspired to encompass what the eighteenth-century author James Thomson called the "system . . . entire." Thus, they offer a unique record of geohistory, Britain's epochal transition from an agrarian society, buffeted by climate shocks, to a modern coal-powered nation.
Climate and the Making of Worlds is a bracing and sophisticated contribution to ecocriticism, the energy humanities, and the prehistory of the Anthropocene.
Weight: 556g
Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780226776149
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