1st Edition
Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century
Introduction. Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner Section I: Science 1. The Mesh. Timothy Morton 2. Posthuman/Postnatural: Ecocriticism and the Sublime in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Paul Outka 3. Revisiting the Virtuoso: Natural History Collectors and Their Passionate Engagement with Nature. Beth Fowkes Tobin 4. Chimerical Figurations at the Monstrous Edges of Species. Jill Casid 5. The City Refigured: Environmental Vision in a Transgenic Age. Allison Carruth Section II: History 6. Ecopoetics and the Origins of English Literature. Alfred K. Siewers 7. Amerindian Eden: the Divine Weekes of Du Bartas. Edward M. Test 8. Erasure by U.S. Legislation: Ruiz de Burton’s Nineteenth Century Novels and the Lost Archive of Mexican American Environmental Knowledge. Priscilla Solis Ybarra 9. Shifting the Center: A Tradition of Environmental Literary Discourse from Africa. Byron Caminero-Santangelo 10. Ecomelancholia: Slavery, War and Black Ecological Imaginings. Jennifer James Section III: Scale 11. Home Again: Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Aesthetics of Transition. Michael G. Ziser 12. Reclaiming Nimby: Nuclear Waste, Jim Day, and the Rhetoric of Local Resistance. Cheryll Glotfelty 13. Imagining a Chinese Eco-City. Julie Sze and Yi Zhou 14. "No Debt Outstanding": The Postcolonial Politics of Local Food. Susie O’Brien 15. Pathways to the Sea: Involvement and the Commons in Works by Ralph Hotere, Cilla McQueen, Hone Tuwhare, and Ian Wedde. Teresa Shewry Afterword. An Interview with Elaine Scarry
Biography
Ken Hiltner is an Associate Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Stephanie LeMenager is Associate Professor at UC-Santa Barbara.
Teresa Shewry is Assistant Professor of Literature and Environment at University of California, Santa Barbara.
