Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Unsettling the Anthropocene

"Bartha-Mitchell's book is an impressive achievement. The theoretical field, which she traces with such consistent care and detail, is formidable and one where its voices often speak at unacknowledged cross-purposes [...] The book's value lies not just in its productive readings of contemporary Australian prose fiction, but as a concise map of environmental critique."

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Chair of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Australia

"An innovative intervention in the environmental humanities, this thought-provoking study of contemporary Australian literature makes a powerful case for the generative concept of cosmos and, more broadly, for the importance of literary studies within the wider field."

Diletta De Cristofaro, Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, UK

"Where most ecocritical scholarship concentrates on stories set in a vulnerable future, Bartha-Mitchell's book disrupts this temporal straight-jacketing by examining texts that - roughly arranged - examine ecological pasts, futures and presents. Cosmological Readings thus introduces readers to new ecocritical stories, to a wider range of primary texts, and challenges limited thinking about where new imaginings on the environment, ecology and climate change might be found."

Geoff Rodoreda, Lecturer, University of Stuttgart, Germany