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The first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and tipping points in pollution levels, hastening the emergence of an epoch in which humans are the key drivers of planetary change. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene situates Woolf's oeuvre as an important body of work within the literary history of our new planetary period, showing how her fiction and non-fiction engages with questions around climate change, environmental politics, imperial extractivism, eco-philosophy, species difference, natural history and extinction. Bringing together leading and emergent scholars, this collection recognises Woolf as a writer who was profoundly influenced by ecological and environmental questions throughout her life. It brings to light how Woolf responded to the environmental changes of her time and illuminates how her literary innovations continue to offer compelling ways of imagining the nonhuman and the planetary in our present moment.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Reading Virginia Woolf in the Anthropocene, Peter Adkins
PART I: IMAGINING CLIMATE
1. Virginia Woolf and Anticipations of the Anthropocene, Christina Alt
2. Cosmopolitan Anthropocene: The Convergence of Transnationalism and Climatic Consciousness in Virginia Woolf's The Years, Shinjini Chattopadhyay
PART II: MATTER AND MATERIALITIES
3. Outside the Anthropocene: The Subject of Virginia Woolf, Claire Colebrook
4. 'Mud and dung': Virginia Woolf's Environmental Mattering of War, Molly Volanth Hall
5. Following the Oil: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Imperial Extractivism, Peter Adkins
PART III: WRITING EXTINCTION
6. Hearing Beyond Extinction: The Inhuman Comedy of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, Rasheed Tazudeen
7. The Rat or the Flower? Decomposed Being(s) in the Holograph Draft of Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Shilo McGiff
PART IV: MORE THAN HUMAN ENCOUNTERS
8. Darwinism, Dogs and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf, Saskia McCracken
9. Virginia Woolf's 'Bewildering World', Derek Ryan
PART V: OUTSIDERS, ASSEMBLAGES AND ACTIVISM
10. 'Suspending the Sky': Virginia Woolf and the Brazilian Indigenous Worldview of Ailton Krenak, Davi Pinho and Maria A. de Oliveria
11. Staging Collective Action for an Anthropocene Audience in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, Kelly Sultzbach
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