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During the nineteenth century, a plethora of literary authors began imagining that humanity could affect the global climate. Paradoxically, they did this not through the scientific paradigm of global warming, but its perverse inverse: climate control. Rigorously contextualized by the climate events, science, and technology of the nineteenth century, this study compares how canonical figures such as Mark Twain and neglected authors such as Rokeya Hossain represented global climate control as an apocalyptic, utopian, and literary invention. It argues that these authors expressed a shift to an Anthropocene awareness not through prophetic representations of catastrophic change but rather through Promethean fantasies of control. Revelatory for scholars working in both nineteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, this is the story of the progressive inscription of atmospheric control into ensuing Western modernism and modernity long before the advent of 'global warming'.
Contents
Introduction: a new air; 1. The changing climate of the nineteenth century; 2. Straightening the planet Jules Verne; 3. Hothousing the world H. G. Wells; 4. Digging the future Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Gabriel Tarde; 5. Conquering the sky Mary Bradley Lane and Rokeya Hossain; 6. Artificialising the atmosphere J.-K. Huysmans; 7. Controlling the climate of fiction Mark Twain; Conclusion: Grasping the globe; Notes; Works cited; Index.



