Changing the Climate at the Fin de Siècle: Science, Fiction, and the Anthropocene (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

"Rigorously contextualized by the climate events, science, and technology of the nineteenth century, this study compares how canonical figures such as Mark Twain and neglected authors such as Rokeya Hossain represented global climate control as an apocalyptic, utopian, and literary invention long before the advent of "global warming""-- Provided by publisher.