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Gendered Ecologies: New Materialist Interpretations of Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects as part of the environment, and features observations by
women writers as recorded in nature diaries, poetry, bildungsroman, sensational fiction, philosophical fiction, and folklore. In addition, the edition aims to present a case for transnational women writers who have been involved in participating in the discourse of natural philosophy from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. The collection engages with current paradigms of thought influencing the field of ecocriticism and, more specifically, ecofeminism. Various theories are featured, informing interpretation of literary and non-literary material, which include Anthropocene feminism, feminist geography, neo-materialism, object-oriented ontology, panarchy, and trans-corporeality. In particular, neo-materialism and trans-corporeality are guiding principles of the collection, providing theoretical coherence. Neo-materialism becomes a means by which to examine literary and non-literary content by women writers with attention to the materiality of objects as the aim of inquiry. Regarding trans-corporeality, contributors provide evidence of the interrelations between the body-as-matter and animate beings along with inanimate entities. Together, neo-materialism and trans-corporeality drive the edition, as contributors contemplate the significance of interactions among human, nonhuman, organic, and inanimate objects.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
British Female Voices
1: The 'vast prison' of the World: Counter-Anthropocenes
in Wollstonecraft and Shelley - Lisa Ottum
2: Beyond the Bower: The Garden, the Tower, and the Fate
of the Embowered Woman - Heather Braun
3: A space of 'unwonted liberty and pleasure': Charlotte
Brontë's treatment of gardens in the Bildungsromans of
Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe - Louise Willis
4: The Place of Objects: The Female Body, Nature, and
Entanglement in Jane Eyre and The Mill on the Floss
- Dewey W. Hall
5: Lady Audley's Secret and the Manifold Ecologies of Mary
Elizabeth Braddon - Adrian Tait
American Female Voices
6: Ecocultural Contact and the Panarchy of Place:
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Margaret Fuller and Panarchy in
the Great Lakes - John K. Kucich
7: Beyond the Binary: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural
Hours and Celia Thaxter's Among the Isle of Shoals
- Jillmarie Murphy
8: Ants Become Giants: Laura Ingalls's Pioneering
Perspective in the Little House Books" - Elif Armbruster
9: Francis Wright, Lydia Maria Child, and the Greenness of
the Greeks - Matthew Duques
10: Lydia Maria Child's 'Chocorua's Curse': How Sympathy
Prefigures Ecology - Elisabeth West
