The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the 20th-century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike. With a robust variety of works, including H. G. Wells, Clare Winger Harris, H. P. Lovecraft, Leslie F. Stone, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction offers vital new perspectives and critical introductions all the way back to humanitys earliest surviving literary texts. This volume enables a dialogue between environmental catastrophes, human action and anthropogenic climate change and their significance in the contemporary classroom.
The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the 20th-century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike.
Introduction
1. Noah and the Flood (1450 B.C.) Genesis 69 Darkness (1816) by Lord
Byron
2. Darkness (1816) by Lord Byron
3. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe
4. The End of the World (1872) by Eugčne Mouton
5. The Doom of the Great City (1880) by William Delisle Hay
6. Dialogue Between a Goblin and a Gnome (1882) by Giacomo Leopardi
7. After London (excerpt) (1885) by Richard Jefferies
8. The Purchase of the North Pole (excerpt) (1889) by Jules Verne
9. The Star (1897) by H. G. Wells
10. A Corner in Lightning (1898) by George Griffith
11. Within an Ace of the End of the World (1900) by Robert Barr
12. The Four White Days (1903) by Fred M. White
13. The Fire (1904) by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
14. Underground Man (excerpt) (1905) by Gabriel de Tarde
15. The Evacuation of England (excerpt) (1908) by L. P. Gratacap
16. The Last Generation: A Story of the Future (1908) by James Elroy Flecker
17. The Poison Belt (1913) (excerpt) by Arthur Conan Doyle
18. Metropolis (excerpt) (1925) by Thea von Harbou
19. The Colour out of Space (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft
20. The Menace of Mars (1928) by Clare Winger Harris
21. When the Sun Went Out (1929) by Leslie F. Stone
22. This Mechanical Age (1931) by Julia Boynton Green
23. Planetoid of Doom (1932) by Morrison Colladay
24. The Man Who Awoke: Part 1 (1933) by Laurence Manning
Bill Gillard, PhD, MFA, is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where he teaches climate fiction and creative writing. His specialty is speculative fiction from 18801940, and he is coauthor of Speculative Modernism: How Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Conceived the Twentieth Century. His poetry and fiction have been published widely, and his current research is on the Wisconsin author, Robert Bloch.
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