Abstract
Aided by the critical wisdom of Novel’s editorial board, I selected the essays for this special issue from a pair of conferences sponsored by the journal. That was in truth the sole institutional connection between the two events. Challenged to organize a one-day symposium on any topic having to do with novel studies, a committee of PhD students at Duke designed such an event in response to the recently coined term Anthropocene, a coinage for the geologic period during which human activities have had global impact on earth’s ecosystems. In its letter inviting its chosen speakers for this symposium, the planning committee asked speakers to address the following questions:
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