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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Anthropocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Apocalypse -- Rhetoric and Anthropocentrism -- Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism -- Posthumanisms -- The Anthropocene -- Ecological Apocalypse -- 2 The Earth as Pinprick: Some Early Western Challenges to Anthropocentrism -- Ancient Greeks -- Ancient Romans -- 3 Lowering the Human Throne: European Literature to 1900 -- The Middle Ages Through the Neoclassical Era -- European Romanticism -- English Romanticism -- Lord Byron -- Percy Shelley -- The Last Man |
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The Victorian EraThe French Symbolist Movement -- 4 Teleology, Ecology, and Unity and the French Enlightenment -- 5 Courses of Empire: Ecological Apocalypse in Early American Literature -- American Indians -- Colonial and Early National Era -- Early American Romanticism -- Thomas Cole -- The Transcendentalists -- The Skeptics (Hawthorne and Melville) -- 6 Jeffersâ#x80;#x99;s Inheritors: â#x80;#x9C;Transhuman Magnificenceâ#x80;#x9D; in Late-Twentieth Century American Poetry -- 7 Antianthropocentrism and Science Fiction Part I: From Antiquity to World War II |
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Science Fiction to the Late Nineteenth CenturyH. G. Wells and After -- Early Twentieth Century -- 8 Antianthropocentrism and Science Fiction Part II: After World War II and into the Twenty-First Century -- From the 1940s to the Late 1960s -- Science Fiction and the Age of Ecology -- Atwood and McCarthy -- Works Cited |
| Summary |
Annotation This is an analysis of literary texts that question, critique, or subvert anthropocentrism, the notion that the universe and everything in it exists for humans. Bryan Moore examines ancient Greek and Roman texts; medieval to 20th-century European texts; 18th-century French philosophy; early to contemporary American texts and poetry; and science fiction to demonstrate a historical basis for the questioning of anthropocentrism and contemplation of responsible environmental stewardship in the 21st century and beyond |
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Print version record |
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Literature.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature
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Literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319607382 |
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3319607383 |
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