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Zemanek, Evi [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Barnes, Diana G. [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Braunbeck, Helga G. [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Dehler, Gregory J. [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Dunk, James [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Hettinger, Jasmin [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Hutchins, Richard [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Janzen, Darrel [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Middendorf, Serge Leopold [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender]

1st ed.

Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023 [©2023]

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LOC-SH: Global environmental change -- Forecasting -- History ; Human ecology ; Nature -- Effect of human beings on ; Human ecology in literature ; Nature in literature

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dialogues Between Times and Places -- Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment -- Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen -- The Past is a Foreign Environment -- Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579) -- Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature -- Extinction and Conservation -- Feeling Like a Species -- Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch's Animal Treatises -- William Temple Hornaday's Haunting Vision of a Wildlife Apocalypse -- Anticipating Extinction -- Narrating Civilizational Collapse in the Anthropocene -- Urban Environments -- Sensing Noise, Sensing Space -- The Arcologies of Paolo Soleri -- Utopia's User Interface -- Climate(s) and Materialities -- Solastalgia, Future Memory, and Polluted Landscapes in Lucan's Bellum Civile 7 -- Nuclear Winter -- "Nature in Order" or Human Agency? Visions of the Future in the Long Nineteenth-Century Newspaper -- Explaining Climate Change and Predicting its Impacts -- Ecology in a Loop -- Index -- About the Contributors.

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The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.