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Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities
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2023
About this book
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.
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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.
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“A welcome teaching tool for the undergraduate course in eighteenth-century studies—if you want to integrate environmental studies into your class but don’t know where to begin, start here.”
— Lucinda Cole, author of Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740“Bringing together eleven tightly argued essays in a cohesive, innovative, and approachable volume, Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities embodies the deeply generative possibilities of envisioning how the fields of eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities can mutually inform, enrich, and interrogate each other.”— Eighteenth-Century Fiction
“A provocative and compelling case for centering the eighteenth century within environmental humanities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays will be of great interest and lasting value to literary scholars and teachers, and it will serve as a touchstone for all future work at the intersections of eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities.”
— Seth Reno, editor of The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities“A field-defining collection, Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities demonstrates how the emergent methodologies of the environmental humanities illuminate and are in turn enriched by the study of eighteenth-century history and cultural production.”
— Peter Remien, author of The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English LiteratureTopics
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION Eighteenth Century + Environmental Humanities
1 - Part One EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + CLIMATE CHANGE
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1 TOWARD A GENEALOGY OF GEOENGINEERING Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice Age
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2 STORM APOSTROPHE
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3 “WHEN STORMY WINDS HAPPEN” Divine Providence, Climate Change Discourse, and the Cause of Weather Disasters
53 - Part Two EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + NEW MATERIALISMS
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4 PHILLIS WHEATLEY PETERS’S NIOBEAN SOUNDSCAPES
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5 SYPHILIS AND NATURAL HISTORY The Ethical Limits of Human Mastery
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6 SHORE/LINES Drawing Environmental Change on Eighteenth- Century Prince Edward Island
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7 OF WATER, WINDS, AND STORMS The Elemental Regimes of the Buccaneer Journal
136 - Part Four EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + INDIGENEITY AND DECOLONIALITY
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8 “SUPPORTING SINKING NATIONS” Indigenous Women and Their Disasters in John Dennis’s Liberty Asserted
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9 IMAGINING DECOLONIAL FUTURES IN WILLIAM GILBERT’S THE HURRICANE
170 - Part Five EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + GREEN UTOPIAS
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10 SLAVERY AND PLANTATION STEWARDSHIP The Eighteenth- Century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip Freneau
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11 JOHN THELWALL AND L. M. MONTGOMERY WRITE THE GREEN CITY
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX
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Publishing information
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January 18, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781684484324
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eBook ISBN:
9781684484324
Keywords for this book
eighteenth-century climate change; decoloniality; new materialisms; environmental humanities; green utopias; Prince Edward Island; Phillis Wheatley Peters; Erasmus Darwin; Little Ice Age; Indigeneity; blue humanities; William Gilbert; James Grainger; Philip Freneau; John Thelwell; L.M. Montgomery
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
