The call for papers for this collection on “The Rising Tide of Climate Change Fiction” arose from concerns about pessimistic assessments, in recent literary criticism, of the novel’s ability to meet the representational challenges posed by the pressing planetary problem of climate change. The contributions to this volume take issue with that pessimism and take stock of the novel’s capabilities.

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引言：气候变化小说的兴起

征集关于“气候变化小说的浪潮”的这本合集的论文源于对最近的文学批评中对该小说应对由紧迫的全球气候变化问题所带来的代表性挑战的能力的悲观评估的担忧。对这本书的贡献与这种悲观主义提出了质疑，并评估了小说的能力。