A cultural history of climate change

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Introduction: Climates of History, Cultures of Climate Tom Bristow and Thomas H. Ford Part 1 Climates of History 1. Voices of Endurance: Climate and the Power of Oral History Deb Anderson 2. Rethinking Seasons: Changing Climate, Changing Time Christian O'Brien 3. The Terrestrial Envelope: Joseph Fourier's Geological Speculation Jerome Whitington 4. Melancholy and the Continent of Fire Tom Bristow and Andrea Witcomb 5. The Anthropocene and the Long Seventeenth Century: 1550-1750 Linda Williams Part 2 Climates of Writing 6. Change Beyond Belief: Fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson's 'Climate Change Suite' Jayne Lewis 7. Fuels and Humans, Bios and Zoe Karen Pinkus 8. The 'Foreign Grave' Motif in Victorian Medicine and Literature: Climate Therapy and The Limits of Human Environmental Control Roslyn Jolly 9. Climate Change and Literary History Thomas H. Ford Part 3 Climates of Politics 10. Climate Change: Politics, Excess, Sovereignty Nick Mansfield 11. Para-Religions of Climate Change: Humanity, Eco-Nihilism, Apocalypse S. Romi Mukherjee 12. Litigation, Activism, and the Paradox of Lawfulness in an Age of Climate Change Nicole Rogers 13. This Is Not My Beautiful Biosphere Timothy Morton