Climate and the making of worlds : toward a geohistorical poetics /

Menely, Tobias,

Climate and the making of worlds : toward a geohistorical poetics / Tobias Menely. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (vii, 269 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

In this text, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world-making.

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English poetry--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
English poetry--History and criticism.--18th century
Ecology in literature.
Seasons in literature.
Climatic changes in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Climate and civilization--Great Britain.

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