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Contents
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Series Editor’s Preface ix
- Abbreviations x
- Notes on Contributors xii
- Introduction: Reading Virginia Woolf in the Anthropocene 1
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Part I Imagining Climate
- 1. Virginia Woolf and Anticipations of the Anthropocene 33
- 2. Cosmopolitan Anthropocene: The Convergence of Transnationalism and Climatic Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s The Years 56
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Part II Matter and Materialities
- 3. Outside the Anthropocene: The Subject of Virginia Woolf 77
- 4. ‘Mud and dung’: Virginia Woolf’s Environmental Mattering of War 99
- 5. Following the Oil: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Imperial Extractivism 118
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Part III Writing Extinction
- 6. Hearing Beyond Extinction: The Inhuman Comedy of Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts 141
- 7. The Rat or the Flower? Decomposed Being(s) in the Holograph Draft of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves 163
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Part IV More than Human Encounters
- 8. Darwinism, Dogs and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf 187
- 9 Virginia Woolf’s ‘bewildering world’ 210
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Part V: Outsiders, Assemblages and Activism
- 10. ‘Suspending the sky’: Virginia Woolf and the Brazilian Indigenous Worldview of Ailton Krenak 229
- 11. Staging Collective Action for an Anthropocene Audience in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts 248
- Index 270
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Acknowledgements viii
- Series Editor’s Preface ix
- Abbreviations x
- Notes on Contributors xii
- Introduction: Reading Virginia Woolf in the Anthropocene 1
-
Part I Imagining Climate
- 1. Virginia Woolf and Anticipations of the Anthropocene 33
- 2. Cosmopolitan Anthropocene: The Convergence of Transnationalism and Climatic Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s The Years 56
-
Part II Matter and Materialities
- 3. Outside the Anthropocene: The Subject of Virginia Woolf 77
- 4. ‘Mud and dung’: Virginia Woolf’s Environmental Mattering of War 99
- 5. Following the Oil: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Imperial Extractivism 118
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Part III Writing Extinction
- 6. Hearing Beyond Extinction: The Inhuman Comedy of Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts 141
- 7. The Rat or the Flower? Decomposed Being(s) in the Holograph Draft of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves 163
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Part IV More than Human Encounters
- 8. Darwinism, Dogs and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf 187
- 9 Virginia Woolf’s ‘bewildering world’ 210
-
Part V: Outsiders, Assemblages and Activism
- 10. ‘Suspending the sky’: Virginia Woolf and the Brazilian Indigenous Worldview of Ailton Krenak 229
- 11. Staging Collective Action for an Anthropocene Audience in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts 248
- Index 270