Literature and Climate Change: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker, and Consumption and Development in the Anthropocene

Kyndra Turner, Ph.D., Lecturer of English —
Dr. Turner examines how both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Richard Power’s The Echo Maker point to the ways in which northern places have been exploited for centuries to generate capital, but also are implicated in larger global narratives of human consumption and development.