Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present

＂Focusing on the climate change novel, Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis gives an overview of some well-known narratives that contribute to contemporary understandings of climate change and imagine the role of the human in triggering it. The book proposes to broaden the cli-fi genre and argues that industrial fiction is the first example of climate change fiction＂--

Tatiana Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, the principal investigator of ＂Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,＂ and the editor of the Environment, Health, and Well-being series at Michigan State University Press. She is the author of Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature and the editor of Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility; Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste; and Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis.