"Vividly re-contextualising crises including deep time, globalization, evolution, and extinction, this study shows Wells, Hardy, Conrad and Woolf overturning novelistic realism to navigate changed realities."--

Aaron Rosenberg is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at King's College London. His research focuses nineteenth and twentieth century literature, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities.

Introduction: extreme measures; 1. Rescaling Romance: H. G. Wells; 2. Infinitesimal lives: Thomas Hardy's scale effects; 3. Joseph Conrad and the scalability of Empire; 4. Virginia Woolf and the problem of generations; Conclusion: welcome to the Psychozoic.