Jesse Oak Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1163384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse Oak Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse Oak |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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Storm-Clouds on the Horizon: John Ruskin and the Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change
This article treats John Ruskin’s lectures on The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century as an experimental foray in cultural climatology, suggesting that Ruskin’s efforts to document, and develop conceptual rubrics for, an unprecedented meteorological phenomenon offer important insights for the task of the humanities in a time of climate change. A correction article related to this research can be found here: https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.854
The Novel after Nature, Nature after the Novel: Richard Jefferies’s Anthropocene Romance
The history of the novel must be re-thought in light of the emergence of the Anthropocene. The period associated with the "rise of the novel" in the eighteenth and nineteenth century dovetails with the emergence of industrial capitalism, the shift to fossil fuels, and European imperialism, all of which are now recognized as key elements in the scaling-up of human activity to planetary scale. It also aligns with the emergence of modern geology and…
Anthropocene
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Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times
"Considers the implications of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record, for literary history and critical method. Explores the status of reading in the history of geology, and of geohistory in literature"--Provided by publisher
The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins
The theory of evolution was poetry before it became science, each time with a Darwin behind the pen. The relationship between Charles Darwin and his grandfather Erasmus has long proven a conundrum
The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf
Where Is Victorian Ecocriticism
The most striking thing about reviewing the field of Victorian ecocriticism is that there is so little of it. This relative absence is all the more perplexing given that ecocritical work on Romanticism and nineteenth-century American literature is so profuse. Thoreau and Wordsworth remain the most-discussed authors in a field that was in many respects inaugurated by Jonathan Bate's Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (199…
Auras and Ice Cores
This article traces the implications of thinking about the Anthropocene from the perspective of the archives that make it visible, placing ice-core data and scientific research on historical climate alongside ideas of the archive in historiography and the humanities. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “aura” of a work of art or cultural artifact, it offers an atmospheric conception of history attending to the ways in which humans, nonhuma…
Powers of Zero: Aggregation, Negation, and the Dimensions of Scale in Indra Sinha's Animal's People
Set in a fictionalized version of Bhopal, India, Indra Sinha's Animal's People is a vivid dramatization of disempowerment and environmental injustice, juxtaposed with the power of narrative and the resilience of communal spirit. Perhaps most intriguingly, it presents hopelessness as a source of strength, the enigmatic "power of zero" possessed by those who having nothing. This article uses Sinha's remarkable novel to think about the novel form as…
The Novel as Climate Model: Realism and the Greenhouse Effect in Bleak House
Climate change cannot be experienced, only imagined. While we can experience the weather at any given moment, climate refers to the aggregation of weather patterns over time and thus can be accessed only through models and projections. This presents both a crisis and an opportunity for ecocriticism, which has often privileged immersive experience and a relatively simplistic view of the referentiality of language, particularly realism, known as “e…
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The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins
The theory of evolution was poetry before it became science, each time with a Darwin behind the pen. The relationship between Charles Darwin and his grandfather Erasmus has long proven a conundrum
Where Is Victorian Ecocriticism
The most striking thing about reviewing the field of Victorian ecocriticism is that there is so little of it. This relative absence is all the more perplexing given that ecocritical work on Romanticism and nineteenth-century American literature is so profuse. Thoreau and Wordsworth remain the most-discussed authors in a field that was in many respects inaugurated by Jonathan Bate's Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (199…
The Novel as Climate Model: Realism and the Greenhouse Effect in Bleak House
Climate change cannot be experienced, only imagined. While we can experience the weather at any given moment, climate refers to the aggregation of weather patterns over time and thus can be accessed only through models and projections. This presents both a crisis and an opportunity for ecocriticism, which has often privileged immersive experience and a relatively simplistic view of the referentiality of language, particularly realism, known as “e…
The Novel after Nature, Nature after the Novel: Richard Jefferies’s Anthropocene Romance
The history of the novel must be re-thought in light of the emergence of the Anthropocene. The period associated with the "rise of the novel" in the eighteenth and nineteenth century dovetails with the emergence of industrial capitalism, the shift to fossil fuels, and European imperialism, all of which are now recognized as key elements in the scaling-up of human activity to planetary scale. It also aligns with the emergence of modern geology and…
Auras and Ice Cores
This article traces the implications of thinking about the Anthropocene from the perspective of the archives that make it visible, placing ice-core data and scientific research on historical climate alongside ideas of the archive in historiography and the humanities. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “aura” of a work of art or cultural artifact, it offers an atmospheric conception of history attending to the ways in which humans, nonhuma…
Storm-Clouds on the Horizon: John Ruskin and the Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change
This article treats John Ruskin’s lectures on The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century as an experimental foray in cultural climatology, suggesting that Ruskin’s efforts to document, and develop conceptual rubrics for, an unprecedented meteorological phenomenon offer important insights for the task of the humanities in a time of climate change. A correction article related to this research can be found here: https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.854
Anthropocene
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Powers of Zero: Aggregation, Negation, and the Dimensions of Scale in Indra Sinha's Animal's People
Set in a fictionalized version of Bhopal, India, Indra Sinha's Animal's People is a vivid dramatization of disempowerment and environmental injustice, juxtaposed with the power of narrative and the resilience of communal spirit. Perhaps most intriguingly, it presents hopelessness as a source of strength, the enigmatic "power of zero" possessed by those who having nothing. This article uses Sinha's remarkable novel to think about the novel form as…
Books
Powers of Zero: Aggregation, Negation, and the Dimensions of Scale in Indra Sinha's Animal's People
Set in a fictionalized version of Bhopal, India, Indra Sinha's Animal's People is a vivid dramatization of disempowerment and environmental injustice, juxtaposed with the power of narrative and the resilience of communal spirit. Perhaps most intriguingly, it presents hopelessness as a source of strength, the enigmatic "power of zero" possessed by those who having nothing. This article uses Sinha's remarkable novel to think about the novel form as…
The Novel as Climate Model: Realism and the Greenhouse Effect in Bleak House
Climate change cannot be experienced, only imagined. While we can experience the weather at any given moment, climate refers to the aggregation of weather patterns over time and thus can be accessed only through models and projections. This presents both a crisis and an opportunity for ecocriticism, which has often privileged immersive experience and a relatively simplistic view of the referentiality of language, particularly realism, known as “e…
Auras and Ice Cores
This article traces the implications of thinking about the Anthropocene from the perspective of the archives that make it visible, placing ice-core data and scientific research on historical climate alongside ideas of the archive in historiography and the humanities. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “aura” of a work of art or cultural artifact, it offers an atmospheric conception of history attending to the ways in which humans, nonhuma…
Where Is Victorian Ecocriticism
The most striking thing about reviewing the field of Victorian ecocriticism is that there is so little of it. This relative absence is all the more perplexing given that ecocritical work on Romanticism and nineteenth-century American literature is so profuse. Thoreau and Wordsworth remain the most-discussed authors in a field that was in many respects inaugurated by Jonathan Bate's Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (199…
The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf
Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times
"Considers the implications of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record, for literary history and critical method. Explores the status of reading in the history of geology, and of geohistory in literature"--Provided by publisher
The Age of Analogy: Science and Literature Between the Darwins
The theory of evolution was poetry before it became science, each time with a Darwin behind the pen. The relationship between Charles Darwin and his grandfather Erasmus has long proven a conundrum
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Storm-Clouds on the Horizon: John Ruskin and the Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change
This article treats John Ruskin’s lectures on The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century as an experimental foray in cultural climatology, suggesting that Ruskin’s efforts to document, and develop conceptual rubrics for, an unprecedented meteorological phenomenon offer important insights for the task of the humanities in a time of climate change. A correction article related to this research can be found here: https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.854
The Novel after Nature, Nature after the Novel: Richard Jefferies’s Anthropocene Romance
The history of the novel must be re-thought in light of the emergence of the Anthropocene. The period associated with the "rise of the novel" in the eighteenth and nineteenth century dovetails with the emergence of industrial capitalism, the shift to fossil fuels, and European imperialism, all of which are now recognized as key elements in the scaling-up of human activity to planetary scale. It also aligns with the emergence of modern geology and…
Anthropocene
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropocene (4 works)