Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism

Chapter 1 Introduction: Anthropocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Apocalypse

Chapter 2 The Earth as Pinprick: Some Early Western Challenges to Anthropocentrism

Chapter 3 Lowering the Human Throne: European Literature to 1900

Chapter 4 Teleology, Ecology, and Unity and the French Enlightenment

Chapter 5 Courses of Empire: Ecological Apocalypse in Early American Literature

Chapter 6 Jeffers’s Inheritors: “Transhuman Magnificence” in Late-Twentieth Century American Poetry

Chapter 8 Antianthropocentrism and Science Fiction Part II: After World War II and into the Twenty-First Century