Overview: Documents the emergence of geology, natural history, climatology, and industrialization in the 1700–1800s.Draws from literary, scientific, political, and philosophical texts.Extends the existing canon.This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an “early Anthropocene” in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth Reno shows how literary writers of the Industrial Era borrowed from scientists to capture the changes they witnessed to weath
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