HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Climates of history, cultures of climate 1 PART I Climates of history 15 1 Voices of endurance: climate and the power of oral history 17 2 Rethinking seasons: changing climate, changing time 38 3 The terrestrial envelope: Joseph Fourier’s geological speculation 55 4 Melancholy and the continent of fire 72 5 The Anthropocene and the long seventeenth century: 1550–1750 87 Contents PART II Climates of writing 109 6 Change beyond belief: fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson’s ‘climate change suite’ 111 7 Fuels and humans, bíos and zo-e- 128 8 The ‘foreign grave’ motif in Victorian medicine and literature 138 9 Climate change and literary history 157 PART III Climates of politics 175 10 Climate change: politics, excess, sovereignty 177 11 Para-religions of climate change: humanity, eco-nihilism, apocalypse 192 12 Litigation, activism, and the paradox of lawfulness in an age of climate change 211 13 This is not my beautiful biosphere 229