1st Edition
Transatlantic Literary Ecologies Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World
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
Biography
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.
