Table of Contents
Introduction: Climates of History, Cultures of Climate Tom Bristow and Thomas H. Ford
Part 1 Climates of History
1. Voices of Endurance: Climate and the Power of Oral History Deb Anderson
2. Rethinking Seasons: Changing Climate, Changing Time Christian O’Brien
3. The Terrestrial Envelope: Joseph Fourier’s Geological Speculation Jerome Whitington
4. Melancholy and the Continent of Fire Tom Bristow and Andrea Witcomb
5. The Anthropocene and the Long Seventeenth Century: 1550-1750 Linda Williams
Part 2 Climates of Writing
6. Change Beyond Belief: Fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson’s ‘Climate Change Suite’ Jayne Lewis
7. Fuels and Humans, Bíos and Zōē Karen Pinkus
8. The ‘Foreign Grave’ Motif in Victorian Medicine and Literature: Climate Therapy and The Limits of Human Environmental Control Roslyn Jolly
9. Climate Change and Literary History Thomas H. Ford
Part 3 Climates of Politics
10. Climate Change: Politics, Excess, Sovereignty Nick Mansfield
11. Para-Religions of Climate Change: Humanity, Eco-Nihilism, Apocalypse S. Romi Mukherjee
12. Litigation, Activism, and the Paradox of Lawfulness in an Age of Climate Change Nicole Rogers
13. This Is Not My Beautiful Biosphere Timothy Morton