Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents vii
3. Introduction: Stratigraphic Criticism 1
4. 1. “Earth Trembled”: Paradise Lost, the Little Ice Age, and the Climate of Allegory 37
5. 2. “The Works of Nature”: Descriptive Poetry and the History of the Earth in Thomson’s The Seasons 84
6. 3. Mine, Factory, and Plantation: The Industrial Georgic and the Crisis of Description 127
7. 4. Uncertain Atmospheres: Romantic Lyricism in the Time of the Anthropocene 165
8. Afterword: The Literary Past and the Planetary Future 208
9. Acknowledgments 215
10. Notes 219
11. Bibliographic Note 257
12. Index 259