Transatlantic Literary Ecologies: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World

ISBN-13: 9780367880880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Kevin Hutchings; John Miller

Opis

Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socio-environmental issues involving such topi

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Nineteenth–Century Transatlantic Literary Ecologies, Kevin Hutchings and John Miller

Chapter 1: The Poetry and Agricultural Politics of Transatlantic Radicalism, 1789–93: Joel Barlow’s The Hasty Pudding, Michael Demson

Chapter 2: Stewardship and Plenitude: William Bartram, the Lake Poets, and Romantic Ecology, David Higgins

Chapter 3: Transatlantic Extinctions and the "Vanishing American," Kevin Hutchings

Chapter 4: Reading the "Book of Nature": Thomas Cole and the British Romantics, Samantha Harvey

Chapter 5: The Ornithographies of John Clare and Henry David Thoreau, Markus Poetzsch

Chapter 6: (Un)settling Desires: Erotics and Ecologies in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Transatlantic Romances, Daniel Hannah

Chapter 7: The Sublime and the Dying: Landscape Aesthetics and Animal Suffering in the Boy’s–Own Fur Trade, John Miller

Chapter 8: John Muir, John Ruskin and the Anthropocene: Modern Painters IV and Studies in the Sierra, Terry Gifford

Chapter 9: Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, Transatlantic Travel Writing, and the Desolation of the Holy Land, Joshua Mabie

Chapter 10: "No Region for Tourists and Women": Isabella Bird, Local Ecology and the Transatlantic Sphere, Amanda Adams

Chapter 11: "Enchased and Lettered": Thomas Hardy’s American Readers and the Nature of Place, Adrian Tait

Afterword, James C. McKusick

Notes on Contributors

Index

O autorze

Kevin Hutchings is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.