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Tennyson's Elegy for the Anthropocene: Genre, Form, and Species Being (2016)

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The Anthropocene demands that we think about the human, and the humanities, in species terms. This essay takes up this challenge by examining how we mourn the loss of species and what role elegy might play in an age of extinction. It explores the implications of reading in the context of the Anthropocene, when human inscription becomes legible in the geologic record and literary texts take on surprising, counter-intuitive new meanings. Ultimately, this paper seeks to extend our understanding of poetics beyond the human by exploring the relationship between literary and biological form.

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Review Roger Ebbaston (2017) Review of "Tennyson's Elegy for the Anthropocene: Genre, Form, and Species Being". Journal of Literature and Science (pp. 85-86). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Beer, Gillian
Geric, Michelle
Gold, Barri J.
Henchman, Anna Alexandra
Holmes, John
Langston, Nancy
Journals
Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Studies
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Harvard University
University of Virginia
Anthem Press
Brandeis University Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Extinction (biology)
Anthropocene
Evolution
Geology
People
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Darwin, Charles Robert
Dickens, Charles
Eliot, George
Hardy, Thomas
Lyell, Charles
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
Great Lakes (North America)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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