Description: This book explores the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene. It explores how British modernists used forms of narrative breakdown and fragmentation to represent--or fail to represent--a global crisis and epoch beyond human scales of history.
Review Quotes: "British Modernism and the Anthropocene is a book to get excited about. Few topics matter more than the attitude of the Global North to what has been called the Anthropocene. So any study of the evolution of thought in this area is more than just welcome, it is an urgent necessity." -- Bill Cooke, The Wellsian
"British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time is a rich study of British modernist aesthetic engagement with environmental concerns... One of the book's key contributions is a reassessment of the complex environmental politics of modernists." -- Shannon Neal, Configurations"Shackleton weaves together British modernism with [discourses of the Anthropocene] in suggestive and convincing ways that ought to reframe modernism as a world-ecological discourse." -- David P. Rando, Modern Fiction Studies"Through a 'salutary rereading of modernist works, Shackleton's research offers a constructive presentation of the underappreciated environmental concerns and politics of British modernism. ...[The] book creatively justifies modernism as a reflexive and anticipatory phase of the Anthropocene." -- Pengfei Zhang, Forum for Modern Language Studies