How Literature Comes to Matter

An interdisciplinary encounter between new materialist and object-oriented studies and literary criticism Provides an overview of central postanthropocentric concerns and key concepts within New Materialism and object-oriented ontologyIllustrates how the material turn and post-anthropocentric theory open new sides to the study of literature, including feminist, queer, postcolonial and anthropocene studies of literatureIncludes hands-on suggestions of how to approach the significance of non-human