Book Review:

Adkins, Peter. The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Djuna Barnes. Edinburgh University Press, 2022

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  • Tanika Rajeshwari V University of Sheffield

Keywords:

Peter Adkins, Modernism, Anthropocene, Environment,

Abstract

This is a review of Peter Adkins' 2022 book The Modernist Anthropocene which looks at a new approach to the humanities through the work of modernist writers James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes.

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Author Biography

  • Tanika Rajeshwari V, University of Sheffield

    Tanika Rajeshwari V is a doctoral student at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

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Published

2025-05-30

Issue

No. 46 (2025): Winter 2024/25

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Reviews

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Book Review:: Adkins, Peter. The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Djuna Barnes. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. (2025). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 46. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/376