Changes in the Landscape

Jennifer L. French is the Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies and Spanish at Williams College.

• Introduction: A Rapidly Changing Landscape: Ecocriticism as an Approach to the Cultural Production of Nineteenth-Century Latin AmericaJennifer L. French1. Canals, Dams, and Colonized Landscapes: SimÓn RodrÍguez vs. the Vincocaya Project (Arequipa, 1830)Ronald Briggs2. Forests of Sound: Listening, Affect, and Matter in Humboldt and HudsonJens Andermann3. Archives of Extinction: Unproductive Bodies in the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Nineteenth-Century ArgentinaGisela Heffes4. Cuba’s CiÉnaga de Zapata: Despoiled Landscapes and Biodiversity Conservation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesLizabeth Paravisini-Gebert5. Botanical Beings: On Women, Flowers, and Plants in Nineteenth-Century Latin AmericaVanesa Miseres6. Hydraulic Energy, Nature, and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century MexicoJorge Quintana Navarrete7. That Mysterious Something: Nature, Mystery, and Animism in W. H. Hudson’s Early WritingsLesley Wylie8. Estanislao Severos Zeballos, or Nineteenth-Century Argentina’s Environmental UnconsciousAarti S. Madan9. La Revista Hispano-Americana (1895–1896): Laura MÉndez’s Extractive PedagogyCatalina RodrÍguez10. Memories of a Darwinian: Anarchism and Animality in the Literary CrÓnicas of Rafael BarrettJennifer L. French11. Graffiti as Earthly Inscriptions: Human Acts and Geological Forces in Euclides da Cunha’s Os sertÕes (1902)Emmanuel VelayosNotes on ContributorsNotesBibliographyIndex

“This is an excellent, compelling, carefully researched, and clearly written volume by leading scholars in Latin Americanist environmental humanities.”—Rachel Price, author of Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island