In a world shaped by the Enlightenment's promise of evolution into a higher soul-species, the Northern Territories thrive under the watchful guidance of The Variety, a powerful intelligence managing every facet of life.Nineteen-year old Noa thought she understood her path until a sudden reassignment to the distant Cavalry Main Ranch shatters her expectations, and she finds herself grappling with rumors and secrets in the burnt grasslands far from her familiar life.Thirteen-...

Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world.