Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884

EARTH

1. The Cradle of the Anthropocene

            Outline of the Book

            Rethinking Earth: Deep Time and the Deep Space Sublime

            Looking to the Skies: Early Climatology and the Science of Global Warming

FIRE

2. Volcanoes and Industrialization in Early Anthropocene Literature

            Volcanoes and Industry in the Eighteenth Century

            Laki, Tambora, and the Damnable Picturesque

            Volcanoes and Industry in the Nineteenth Century

            Krakatoa and Climate Science

            The Human Volcano

WATER

3. Rivers, Canals, and Commerce in the Early Anthropocene

            Coal, Canals, and the River Tyne

            Ecotourism and Conservation in the Lake District

            Rivers as Liquid History

AIR

4. Clouds and Climate Change in the Nineteenth Century

            Clouds and Early Climatology

            Science and Futurity: Literary Clouds

            Cloud Art: Turner and Constable

            Endurance and Sustainability: The Wordsworths' Hopeful Vision

            Manufactured Clouds in the Late Nineteenth Century

Epilogue: Modernism and the Anthropocene

            Time and Weather in Eliot and Woolf

            Conclusion