Papers by Heather Sullivan
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
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Literatur für Leser, 2012
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Interdisciplinary studies in literature and environment, Oct 26, 2012
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Goethe Yearbook, 2019
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Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2017
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Green Letters, Dec 11, 2015
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Goethe Yearbook, 2010
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Our current geological epoch, provisionally called the Anthropocene, has come into being with the... more Our current geological epoch, provisionally called the Anthropocene, has come into being with the increasingly intensive extraction and utilization of fossil fuels by human beings. One might say that the Anthropocene is the era of humanity writ large across the planet. While it seems that we are the power, it would be more accurate to say that much of industrialized human power in this new geological era is enabled by the access to and use of concentrated forms of energy driving our technologies, global transportation systems, and modern agricultural practices. Timothy Morton states that however problematic the term the Anthropocene is, it nevertheless de-emphasizes human exceptionalism so that “the Anthropocene is the first truly anti-anthropocentric concept” (Morton 2014, 6). There are numerous non-human factors influencing our era, including other life forms and all kinds of active matter such as carbon dioxide, various types of pollution and waste, the shifting weather patterns bringing drought and floods, and the warming climate, among others. Some of the most significant agents of change in these flows of energy and matter are, to reiterate, fossil fuels; indeed, high-tech industrialized (human) culture since the eighteenth century is now being described as an “oil culture” or a “petroculture.” This chapter addresses the impact of fossil fuels on cultural productions with the help of material ecocriticism, the branch of ecocriticism that analyses how human and nonhuman agencies exchange energy, matter, and information.
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Ecozon@, Dec 19, 2011
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Literatur für Leser, 2014
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Seen from above, the banks of the Mississippi appear to be flanked by rich expanses of plant life... more Seen from above, the banks of the Mississippi appear to be flanked by rich expanses of plant life. Yet this verdant appearance is deceptive, as Heather I. Sullivan explains in this essay, considering the effects of industrialization, plant blindness, and what she terms the “dark green.
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Colloquia Germanica, 2011
Dirty Nature: Ecocriticism and Tales of Extraction – Mining and Solar Power – in Goethe, Hoffmann... more Dirty Nature: Ecocriticism and Tales of Extraction – Mining and Solar Power – in Goethe, Hoffmann, Verne, and Eschbach
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Green Letters, Apr 3, 2019
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Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2017
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Routledge eBooks, Jul 20, 2021
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Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Sep 1, 2014
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Monatshefte, Jun 1, 2009
Page 1. Page 2. Monatshefte, Vol. 101, No. 2, 2009 151 0026-9271 / 2009 / 0002 / 151 © 2009 by Th... more Page 1. Page 2. Monatshefte, Vol. 101, No. 2, 2009 151 0026-9271 / 2009 / 0002 / 151 © 2009 by The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Ecocriticism, Goethe's Optics and Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten ...
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Goethe Yearbook, 2019
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Papers by Heather Sullivan
crisis, opening the contaminated world for uncomfortable considerations on a planet where there is no escape from pollution.
(cschaum@emory.edu; hsulliva@trinity.edu)