Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes

Louise Jillettis a tutor in the School of Humanities & Communication Arts and a PhD Candidate at the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia.

• PrefaceLou Jillett (University of Western Sydney, Australia)Frontier Violence1. Doomed Enterprises at Caborca: The Henry Crabb Expedition of 1857 and McCarthy’s Unquiet American Boys Dianne Luce (Midlands Technical College, USA)2. Creatureliness and Justice in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses Lucy Neave (Australian National University, Australia)3. Terra Damnata: The Anticosmic Mysticism of Blood Meridian Petra Mundik (University of Western Australia, Australia)Comparative Literature and Landscape4. “Knowledge Was Never a Matter of Geography”: Patrick White and Cormac McCarthyJan Nordby Gretlund (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)5. McCarthy, W.G. Sebald and A.N. Whitehead: Metaphysical ProseTom Lee (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)6. Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton: Working “From the Ecosystem Up”Joel Found (University of Southampton, UK)Bioregionalism and Nomadism in McCarthy's Western Literature7. The Blood of a Nomad: Environmental Stylistics and All the Pretty HorsesDave Gugin (University of Guam, Guam)8. Baroque Meridians: Between Myth and Actuality on the American Frontier Kate Montague (University of New South Wales, Australia)9. Cormac McCarthy’s Topologies of Violence Katja Rebmann (University of Warwick, UK)Liminal Thresholds10. Textual Borders in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels: The Poetics of Paragraph Breaks in The Road Beatrice Trotignon (Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Larca, France)11. Flânerie, Vagrancy and Voluntary Exile in Cormac McCarthy’s SuttreeLou Jillett (University of Western Sydney, Australia)12. Suttree, Flaubert, Joyce Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney, Australia)Interdisciplinary Approaches 13. Western Scourge: Myth, Language and Law in Blood Meridian and DeadwoodPaul Sheehan (Macquarie University, Australia)14. McCarthy's Time ImageDavid Otto Fitzgerald (University of Sydney, Australia)15. What's Wrong With What's Wrong With The CounselorPeter Josyph (Independent Scholar and Painter, USA)BibliographyList of Contributors Index

Lou Jillett has drawn together a collection of essays by both established and up-and-coming McCarthy scholars that covers the full range of the author's career, but which also focuses on ecocritical and bioregional approaches to the author's work. Much of the previous scholarship in that area has focuses on The Road, as Jillett notes in her preface, but clearly inquiries in to topics like frontier violence, nomadism, and borders or liminal thresholds (as three of the five sections of the collection are titled) are both contemporarily relevant and applicable to all of McCarthy's work. And in a nod to the collection's origins, comparisons with the Australian authors Patrick White and Tim Winton are also included. Jillett has curated an excellent addition to McCarthy studies, and anyone who wants to know what Cormackians are talking about these days would do well to seek it out.