Introduction Adeline Johns-Putra; Part I. Origins: 1. Literature, climate, and time: between history and story Robert Markley; 2. Atmosphere as setting, or, 'wuthering' the Anthropocene Jesse Oak Taylor; 3. The seasons Tess Somervell; 4. Climatic agency in the classical age Daryn Lehoux; 5. Weathering the storm: adverse climates in medieval literature P. S. Langeslag; 6. The climate of Shakespeare: four (or more) forecasts Lowell Duckert; Part II. Evolution: 7. Weather and climate in the age of enlightenment Jan Golinski; 8. British romanticism and the global climate David Higgins; 9. The literary politics of transatlantic climates Morgan Vanek; 10. Climate and race in the age of empire Jessica Howell; 11. Ethereal women: climate and gender from realism to the modernist novel Justine Pizzo; 12. Planetary climates: terraforming in science fiction Chris Pak; 13. The mountains and death: revelations of climate and land in Nordic noir Andrew Nestingen; Part III. Application: 14. The rise of the climate change novel Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra; 15. Climate and history in the Anthropocene: realist narrative and the framing of time Adeline Johns-Putra; 16. The future in the Anthropocene: extinction and the imagination Claire Colebrook; 17. Climate criticism and nuclear criticism Daniel Cordle.