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Introduction: Anticipating Environmental Futures Beyond Pastoral and Apocalyptic Visions |
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PART I DIALOGUES BETWEEN TIMES AND PLACES |
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Chapter 1 Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment |
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Chapter 2 Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen: An Anticipatory Narrative in Galen, Method of Healing V, 12 |
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Chapter 3 The Past is a Foreign Environment: Some Observations on Roman Wetland Drainage in Ancient and Modern Discourse |
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Chapter 4 Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579) |
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Chapter 5 Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature: Chim Bacab's Flower of Memory |
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PART II EXTINCTION AND CONSERVATION |
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Chapter 6 Feeling Like a Species: The Environmental Future in Lucretius |
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Chapter 7 Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch's Animal Treatises |
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Chapter 8 William Temple Hornaday's Haunting Vision of a Wildlife Apocalypse |
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Chapter 9 Anticipating Extinction: Mammoths, Elephants, and the Late-19th-century Ivory Trade |
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Chapter 10 Narrating Civilizational Collapse in the Anthropocene: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014) |
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PART III URBAN ENVIRONMENTS |
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Chapter 11 Sensing Noise, Sensing Space: Environmental Perceptions and the Impact on Future Urban Space in Germany and the United Kingdom (1900-1930) |
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Chapter 12 The Arcologies of Paolo Soleri: Unbuilt Futures from the Past |
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Chapter 13 Utopia's User Interface: Geoengineering, Smart Cities, and Glass Life in Niklas Maak's Novel Technophoria |
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PART IV CLIMATE(S) AND MATERIALITIES |
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Chapter 14 Solastalgia, Future Memory, and Polluted Landscapes in Lucan's Bellum Civile 7 |
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Chapter 15 Nuclear Winter: Science, Fiction, and Temporal Violence |
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Chapter 16 "Nature in Order" or Human Agency? Visions of the Future in the Long Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Climate Change Discourse |
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Chapter 17 Explaining Climate Change and Predicting its Impacts: The Popularization of Bruckner's Theory on Climate Variations as an Anticipatory Narrative |
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Chapter 18 Ecology in a Loop: Cyclical History and Alternative Epistemologies in Ella Hickson's Oil |
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Index |
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About the Contributors |
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