Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanitys increasing domination of the natural world.

Jon Hegglund is associate professor of English at Washington State University.

John McIntyre is associate professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Introduction: Modernism and the Emergent Anthropocene

Part I: Modernism-Anthropocene Encounters

Chapter 1: Revolt against the Anthropos: The Human-Environment Conflicts in D.H. Lawrence

Chapter 2: Vorticism in an Age of Climate Change

Chapter 3: Hart Crane: A Poet of Our Climate

Chapter 4: What kind of creature uttered it?: A Stratigraphy of Subjectivity in Samuel BeckettsThe Unnamable

Part II: Planetary Time and Space

Chapter 5: The Modernist Cosmos: Olaf Stapledon, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Crisis of Species

Chapter 6: Modernist Planets and Planetary Modernism

Chapter 7: Early Ecology and Climate Change in the Future Histories of H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon

Chapter 8: Second Modernism and the Aesthetics of Temporal Scale

Part III: Writing Materials

Chapter 9: Comics: Art of the Anthropocene

Chapter 10: Modernism on Ice: Marianne Moore and the Glacial Imagination

Chapter 11: Modernisms Plastic Futures

Chapter 12: Sky and Smoke: Literary Atmospherics in Cary and Ibuse