A Cultural History of Climate Change

Abstract

Climates of history, cultures of climate / Tom Bristow and Thomas H. Ford -- Voices of endurance: climate and the power of oral history / Deb Anderson -- Rethinking seasons: changing climate, changing time / Chris O'Brien -- Terrestrial envelope: Joseph Fourier's geological speculation / Jerome Withington -- Melancholy and the continent of fire / Tom Bristow and Andrea Whitcomb -- Anthropocene and the long seventeenth century: 1550-1750 / Linda Williams -- Change beyond belief: fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson's 'climate change suite' / Jayne Lewis -- Fuels and humans, bios and zoe / Karen Pinkus -- 'Foreign grave' motif in Victorian medicine and literature / Roslyn Jolly -- Climate change and literary history / Thomas H. Ford -- Climate change: politics, excess, sovereignty / Nick Mansfield -- Para-religions of climate change: humanity, eco-nihilism, apocalypse / S. Romi Mukherjee -- Litigation, activism, and the paradox of lawfulness in an age of climate change / Nicole Rogers -- This is not my beautiful biosphere / Timothy Morton.