Writing Romantic Climate Change: Gendered Poetics and Critical Legacies in the Anthropocene

In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe. Anya Heise-von der Lippe draws on intersectional feminist and ecocritical approaches to highlight gender as a complicating category in Romantic engagements with these topics. She addresses the ways in which gendered critical framings continue to resonate in current Anthropocene discourses that use Romantic conceptualizations of Nature , impacting contemporary approaches to the relationship between humans and non-humans in the ongoing climate catastrophe.

Anya Heise-von der Lippe teaches English literature and culture at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. She holds an MA from Technische Universität Berlin and a PhD in English literature from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, as well as a German post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) from Universität Potsdam. Her current research focuses on climate literature and the critical posthumanities.