A Cultural History of Climate Change

Tom Bristow is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne, Australia. Thomas H. Ford is a Lecturer in English at Monash University, Australia.

Introduction: Climates of History, Cultures of Climate Tom Bristow and Thomas H. Ford

Part 1 Climates of History

1. Voices of Endurance: Climate and the Power of Oral History Deb Anderson

2. Rethinking Seasons: Changing Climate, Changing Time Christian O’Brien

3. The Terrestrial Envelope: Joseph Fourier’s Geological Speculation Jerome Whitington

4. Melancholy and the Continent of Fire Tom Bristow and Andrea Witcomb

5. The Anthropocene and the Long Seventeenth Century: 1550-1750 Linda Williams

Part 2 Climates of Writing

6. Change Beyond Belief: Fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson’s ‘Climate Change Suite’ Jayne Lewis

7. Fuels and Humans, Bíos and Zōē Karen Pinkus

8. The ‘Foreign Grave’ Motif in Victorian Medicine and Literature: Climate Therapy and The Limits of Human Environmental Control Roslyn Jolly

9. Climate Change and Literary History Thomas H. Ford

Part 3 Climates of Politics

10. Climate Change: Politics, Excess, Sovereignty Nick Mansfield

11. Para-Religions of Climate Change: Humanity, Eco-Nihilism, Apocalypse S. Romi Mukherjee

12. Litigation, Activism, and the Paradox of Lawfulness in an Age of Climate Change Nicole Rogers

13. This Is Not My Beautiful Biosphere Timothy Morton