A groundbreaking volume that unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. Contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism.
A groundbreaking volume that unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. Contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism.
Produktdetails
Produktdetails
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
JEREMY CHOW is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His scholarship explores the relationships among eighteenth-century literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and gender and sexuality studies.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
