Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)

Chow, Jeremy (EDT)

Bucknell University Press,U.S.（2022/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 262 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781684484294
• DDC分類 304.209033

Full Description

This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Eighteenth Century + Environmental Humanities
Jeremy Chow
Part I: Eighteenth Century + Climate Change
Chapter 1: Towards a Genealogy of Geoengineering: Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice Age
Elliot Patsoura                                                                                                                                                     
Chapter 2: Storm Apostrophe
Annette Hulbert                                                                                             
Chapter 3: "When Stormy Winds Happen": Divine Providence, Climate Change Discourse, and the Cause of Weather Disasters
Adam W. Sweeting
Part II: Eighteenth Century + New Materialisms                                                      
Chapter 4: Phillis Wheatley Peters' Niobean Soundscapes
Shelby Johnson                                  
Chapter 5: Syphilis and Natural History: The Ethical Limits of Human Mastery
Mariah Crilley                                                                       
Part III: Eighteenth Century + Blue Humanities
Chapter 6: Shore/Lines: Drawing Environmental Change on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island                                                                       
Claire Campbell                                                                                
Chapter 7: Of Water, Wind, and Storms: The Elemental Regimes of the Buccaneer Journal
Jason Payton
Part IV: Eighteenth Century + Indigeneity and Decoloniality
Chapter 8: "Supporting Sinking Nations": John Dennis's Indigenous Women and their Disasters
Matt DuquÈs
Chapter 9: Imagining Decolonial Futures in William Gilbert's The Hurricane
Ami Yoon
Part V: Eighteenth Century + Green Utopias
Chapter 10: Slavery and Plantation Stewardship: The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip Freneau
Christopher Allan Black
Chapter 11: John Thelwell and L.M. Montgomery Write the Green City
Kate Scarth
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index