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What did literature reveal about climate change, extraction, species loss and environmental transformation before the term “Anthropocene” was coined? With a global and comparative perspective, this handbook illuminates how writers before 1945 envisioned the interconnectedness of humans, animals, technologies, and environments. Covering multiple literary forms and genres like mythology, colonial writing, avant-garde poetry, Black naturalism, novels, short fiction, the volume traces literary responses to land transformation, mining, terraforming, colonialism, and more-than-human worlds. Handbook to the Literary History of the Early Anthropocene offers fresh insight into how literary history can be rethought from a contemporary ecocritical perspective, and how literature engaged with planetary change long before it became a recognized framework for understanding human history.
Price: $179.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Handbooks of Literary and Cultural Studies
Publication Date:
07 February 2027
ISBN: 9789004779532
Format: Hardcover
Stefanie Heine is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature’s Syncope (SUNY, 2021) and Tangential Terrains: Cormac McCarthy’s Geoaesthetics (University of Nevada Press, 2026).
Anne Fastrup is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen. She leads two research projects on the cultural and environmental history of agriculture and has published widely on early modern European literary history and historical ecocriticism.
Christa Holm Vogelius is a research affiliate at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the author of Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century Literature (UMass Press, 2025) and co-editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal (JHUP).
Sebastian Ørtoft Rasmussen is a PhD scholar at Aarhus University, writing on the relationship between geological thought and aesthetic form. He has been a guest researcher at Cornell University and has published work on Romanticism, Anthropocene studies, and planetarism.
Anne Fastrup is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen. She leads two research projects on the cultural and environmental history of agriculture and has published widely on early modern European literary history and historical ecocriticism.
Christa Holm Vogelius is a research affiliate at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the author of Original Copy: Ekphrasis, Gender, and the National Imagination in Nineteenth Century Literature (UMass Press, 2025) and co-editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal (JHUP).
Sebastian Ørtoft Rasmussen is a PhD scholar at Aarhus University, writing on the relationship between geological thought and aesthetic form. He has been a guest researcher at Cornell University and has published work on Romanticism, Anthropocene studies, and planetarism.