Description:
Considers the implications of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record, for literary history and critical method. Explores the status of reading in the history of geology, and of geohistory in literature.
Brief description: Tobias Menely is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of The Animal Claim: Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice.
Review Quotes:
"Anthropocene Reading demonstrates why the era of what some are also calling the 'Great Acceleration' reaches into and affects so many fields, sciences, and disciplines."
--Jonathan Hahn Sierra