We live in a critical moment in history often called the »Anthropocene« that is defined by
unprecedented scales of uncertainty. Natalie Dederichs draws on insights from the new
materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with
approaches to aesthetics from fields as diverse as reader-response criticism phenomenology
Gothic and media studies. She introduces a poetics of atmospheric re(lation)ality as a
necessary component of any ecological engagement with fiction that fully embraces literary
encounters with the inaccessible and elusive as expressed in uncanny atmospheric reading
experiences.
