Beastly Tales for the Anthropocene

It is well known that the Anthropocene Working Group proposed the addition of the Anthropocene as a time interval to the International Chronostratigraphic Chart (ICC). Despite the ...

Opening the volume, our introduction will situate the contributions to Beastly Modernisms within the field of modernist animal studies scholarship and explore the concept of ‘beast...

Fairy tales and folklore pervaded Victorian society. Fairy tales and folktales were rewritten and revised, translated, edited and collected, and illustrated, and their characters a...

IntroductionIf human beings have become a geophysical force, capable of impacting the very crust and atmosphere of the planet, and if geophysical forces become objects of study, pr...

Paul Crutzen’s concept of the Anthropocene in Nature in 2002 stressed that “a daunting task [lay] ahead for scientists and engineers to guide society towards en...

The Anthropocene is the present time of human-caused accelerating global change, and new forms of Anthropocene risk are emerging that society has hitherto never experienced. Scienc...

A geological definition of the Anthropocene, shorthand for humanity’s cumulative disruption of the Earth-Human Ecosystem, looms as the planet-and-people focused UN approa...

There were many narrative types in the oral tradition period when there was no written culture. One of these is the fairy tales that form the language, cultural and value judgments...