Seth T. Reno is Distinguished Research Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery. He is author of Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884 (2020) and Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788-1853 (2019); editor of Romanticism and Affect Studies (2018); and coeditor of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (2016). He has also published dozens of journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, art, and science.

Introduction: The Anthropocene and the Humanities

Seth T. Reno

Part 1: Approaches

Chapter 1: The Deep Time Life Kit

Lisa Ottum

Chapter 2: The Two Households: Economics and Ecology

Scott R. MacKenzie

Chapter 3: Energy and the Anthropocene

Kent Linthicum

Chapter 4: Environmental Racism, Environmental Justice: Centering Indigenous Responses to the Colonial Logics of the Anthropocene

Rebecca Macklin

Chapter 5: The World is Burning: Racialized Regimes of Eco-Terror and the Anthropocene as Eurocene

Nicolás Juárez

Chapter 6: Trans*Plantationocene

Nicholas Tyler Reich

Chapter 7: The Anthropocene and Critical Method

Stephen Tedeschi

Part 2: Contexts

Chapter 8: "One Life" and One Death: Mary Shelley's The Last Man

Matthew Rowney

Chapter 9: Henry David Thoreau: A New Anthropocenic Persona

Robert Klevay

Chapter 10: It's the End of the World: Can We Know It?

Tobias Wilson-Bates

Chapter 11: Orlando in the Anthropocene: Climate Change and Changing Times

Naomi Perez

Chapter 12: Corporeal Matters: J.P. Clark's The Wives' Revolt and the Embodied Politics of the Anthropocene

Kimberly Skye Richards

Chapter 13: What Global South Critics Do

Antonette Talaue-Arogo

Chapter 14: Queering the Modest Witness in the Chthulucene: Jeff VanderMeer's Borne (a New Weird Case Study)

Kristin Girten

Chapter 15: Contemporary Cli-fi as Anthropocene Literature: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140

Seth T. Reno