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with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult  \nLeigh Wilson  \nSonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts  \nSam Halliday  \nModernism and the Frankfurt School  \nTyrus Miller  \nLesbian Modernism: Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction Elizabeth English  \nModern Print Artefacts: Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890–1930s  \nPatrick Collier  \nCheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde  \nLise Jaillant  \nPortable Modernisms: TheArt of Travelling Light  \nEmily Ridge  \nHieroglyphic Modernisms: Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century  \nJesse Schotter  \nModernism, Fiction and Mathematics  \nNina Engelhardt  \nModernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman  \nDaniel Aureliano Newman  \nModernism, Space and the City: Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London  \nAndrew Thacker  \nModernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine 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\n[www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/ecsmc](www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/ecsmc)  \nTHE MODERNIST ANTHROPOCENE  \nNonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce , Virginia Woolf and Dj una  \nBarnes  \nPeter Adkins  \nEDINBURGH University Press  \nEdinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: [edinburghuniversitypress.com](edinburghuniversitypress.com)  \n© Peter Adkins, 2022  \nCover image: Light Coming on the Plains No. II (detail) (1917), Georgia O’Keeffe, Watercolor on newsprint paper, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1966.32, © Amon Carter Museum of American Art  \n[Cover design:](Cover design: www.hayesdesign.co.uk)[ www.hayesdesign.co.uk](Cover design: www.hayesdesign.co.uk)  \nEdinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ  \nTypeset in 10/12.5 Adobe Sabon by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd, and printed and bound in Great Britain  \nA CIP record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 978 1 4744 8196 0 (hardback)  \nISBN 978 1 4744 8198 4 (webready PDF)  \nISBN 978 1 4744 8199 1 (epub)  \nThe right of Peter Adkins to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498) .  \nCONTENTS  \nList of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations  \nIntroduction  \n1 The Matter of Politics in the Novels of James Joyce  \n2 James Joyce and the Revenge of Gaia  \n3 The Beastly Writing of Djuna Barnes  \n4 Sex, Nature and Animal Life in Djuna Barnes’s Ryder  \n5 The Sympathetic Climate ","cbCaiatQivqfQsG7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiatQivqfQsG7","pdf",3223891,296,"English","# Contents\n## Introduction\n## 1 The Matter of Politics in the Novels of James Joyce\n## 2 James Joyce and the Revenge of Gaia\n## 3 The Beastly Writing of Djuna Barnes\n## 4 Sex, Nature and Animal Life in Djuna Barnes’s Ryder\n## 5 The Sympathetic Climate of Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando\n## 6 The Disturbing Future of Virginia Woolf ’s Late Writing Fallout: Modernism in the Nuclear Anthropocene\n## Bibliography\n## Index\n# Figures\n## 1.1 Letter from George Russell...\n## 3.1 The Beast...\n## 4.1 The Tree of Ryder...\n## 4.2 Pennyfinder the Bull...\n## 7.1 Earthrise...\n## 7.2 Light Coming on the Plains No. II...\n## 7.3 Blast, I...\n# Acknowledgements","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of The Modernist Anthropocene?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates nonhuman life and planetary change in modernist writing, centering on James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Djuna Barnes.\"},{\"question\":\"Which chapters address James Joyce in particular?\",\"answer\":\"Chapters 1 and 2 focus on Joyce, covering the matter of politics in his novels and a response framed as the revenge of Gaia.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book treat the future and environmental stakes in modernism?\",\"answer\":\"Chapter 6 turns to Virginia Woolf ’s late writing Fallout and links it to modernism in the nuclear Anthropocene, emphasizing disturbing future visions.\"}]","The Modernist Anthropocene - Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change | PDF",1791239143,456]