Title
Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth Century Art and Visual Culture
Document Type
Book
Keywords
arts; environment; sustainability; humanities; ecocriticism; Anthropocene; nineteenth century; visual culture
Identifier Data
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429059193
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Routledge
Abstract
In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals, and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality of emerging critical discourses such as new materialism, ecofeminism, critical animal studies, food studies, object-oriented ontology, and affect theory. This timely volume looks back at the early decades of the Anthropocene to query the agency of visual culture to critique, create and maintain more resilient and biologically diverse local and global ecologies.
