Climate and American literature / edited by Michael Boyden.

"Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boyden, Michael (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Cambridge themes in American literature and culture.
Subjects:
Climatic changes in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Climate and civilization > United States.
Nature and civilization > United States.
American literature.
Literature and society.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 370 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. Climate and its discontents: The climate history of North America / Dagomar Degroot
  • Climate theories / Lauren LaFauci
  • Climate and civilization / David N. Livingstone
  • Climate and race / Susan Scott Parrish
  • Part II. American literary climates: Climate and American Indian literature / Amy T. Hamilton
  • Colonial climates / Michael Boyden
  • The degeneration thesis / Timothy Sweet
  • The state of the air in post-Revolutionmary America / Julia Dauer
  • The higher latitudes of the American Renaissance / Andrew McMurry
  • Climate and the American West / Sylvan Goldberg
  • Fictions of health after miasma / Don James McLaughlin
  • Naturalism, regionalism, and climate (in)determinism / Lynn Wardley
  • American modernisms and climatology / Matthew Griffiths
  • Postmodern climates / David Watson
  • Frontiers of a shrinking world: recent American climate fiction / Sarah Dimick
  • Part III. New lines of inquiry: Climate and the environmental humanities / Michael Ziser
  • The anthropocenic sublime: a critique / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
  • Climate and the new materialisms / Hannes Bergthaller
  • A match made in hell: climate change and neoliberalism / Christian Parenti.