Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894

Dr Louis Kirk McAuley has been Associate Professor in the Department of English at Washington State University, USA, since 2014. He has published a number of articles and book chapters, as well as his first book Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 (Bucknell University Press, 2013).

• List of FiguresSeries Editors’ PrefacAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Unruly Natures1. The Evolution of Robinson Crusoe’s World-Ecological Consciousness 2. The Poetics of Biological Invasion and Crop Monoculture in Early Caribbean Literature 3. Capitalism, Domestic Violence, and the "Botany of Desire" in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo 4. Robert Louis Stevenson and the "Horror of Creeping Things" Afterword Bibliography Index

A remarkable book. This fantastically eloquent and erudite study of empire writing offers an unrivalled account of the cultural registration of 'unruly natures' and their simultaneous contribution to, and troubling of, the imperial expansion of Britain and the US. McAuley’s work represents a signal intervention into the Environmental Humanities.