Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene / Shawna Ross.

"Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene argues that Brontë was an attentive witness of the Anthropocene and created one of the first literary ecosystems animated by human-caused environmental change. Living in rural, industrializing Yorkshire in the early- and mid-nineteenth century, Brontë wa...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Ross, Shawna (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855 > Criticism and interpretation. Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855. Human ecology in literature. Nature in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Anthropocene Fictions at the Scale of a Lifetime
Chapter 1: Bog Burst at the Dawn of the Anthropocene: Observing the Moors under Crisis
Chapter 2: Three Days on the Moors with Jane Eyre: Defining Anthropos
Chapter 3: Shirley's Tale of Valley, Factory, and Lioness: Gathering Multispecies Romances of Ecological Degradation
Chapter 4: Provisional Survivors in Postnatural Villette: Learning to Love the Storm
Conclusion: Climates for Mourning, Editing, and Scholarship.

Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene / Shawna Ross.

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