ABSTRACT
One important implication of the Anthropocene is that nature, as a reality that is divorced from human culture, no longer exists. Humans’ far-reaching impact on the planet means that no part of the environment is untouched by human action, and that the world is a thoroughly contaminated and compromised place. This chapter explores how formal innovation aligns contemporary literature with the aims of the interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. The notion of form can help us understand how literature can contribute to the interdisciplinary study of the Anthropocene under the label of the environmental humanities. The Anthropocene is marked by an intense reorganization of the relations between different forms of life and life forms. The chapter examines the relation between life and form in the development of the field of ecocriticism and discusses the differentiating difference between form and environmental humanities.
