Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-viii

Series Editor’s Preface

pp ix-ix

Abbreviations

pp x-xi

Notes on Contributors

pp xii-xiv

In memory of Susan Stanford Friedman (1943-2023)

pp xv-xv

Introduction: Reading Virginia Woolf in the Anthropocene

pp 1-32

Part I - Imagining Climate

pp 33-34

Chapter 1 - Virginia Woolf and Anticipations of the Anthropocene

pp 35-55

Chapter 2 - Cosmopolitan Anthropocene: The Convergence of Transnationalism and Climatic Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s The Years

pp 56-76

Part II - Matter and Materialities

pp 77-78

Chapter 3 - Outside the Anthropocene: The Subject of Virginia Woolf

pp 79-98

Chapter 4 - ‘Mud and dung’: Virginia Woolf’s Environmental Mattering of War

pp 99-117

Chapter 5 - Following the Oil: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Imperial Extractivism

pp 118-140

Part III - Writing Extinction

pp 141-142

Chapter 6 - Hearing Beyond Extinction: The Inhuman Comedy of Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

pp 143-162

Chapter 7 - The Rat or the FlowerƧͅ Decomposed Being(s) in the Holograph Draft of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

pp 163-186

Part IV - More than Human Encounters

pp 187-188

Chapter 8 - Darwinism, Dogs and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf

pp 189-209

Chapter 9 - Virginia Woolf’s ‘bewildering world’

pp 210-228

Part V - Outsiders, Assemblages and Activism

pp 229-230

Chapter 10 - ‘Suspending the sky’: Virginia Woolf and the Brazilian Indigenous Worldview of Ailton Krenak

pp 231-247

Chapter 11 - Staging Collective Action for an Anthropocene Audience in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

pp 248-269

Index

pp 270-276