Reading and Writing in the Anthropocene

Situated in the context of environmental thought in literary studies in particular and the humanities more generally, this book claims that literature is a crucial “force” for coming to terms with the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene. Performing a kind of creative criticism, this book is a work of eco-deconstruction which engages with a variety of films and literary texts ranging, roughly, from the early 1980s – when the knowledge of an environmental crisis started to trickle down to the general public and when scholars and governments alike turned their attention to it – to the early 21st century. Examining texts as diverse as Mad Max, Cosmopolis, Blade Runner and The Diamond Age, the book sets out to theorise an Anthropocene literary turn, repositioning literature and film as a "geological force" in the era of the Anthropocene