Framing the Environmental Humanities

Hannes Bergthaller, Ph.D. (University of Bonn, 2004) is professor of English at National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan. He specializes in the literature and cultural history of U.S. environmentalism. Among his recent publications are an edited special issue on ecocriticism and environmental history in ISLE and on ecocriticism and comparative literature in Komparatistik.Peter Mortensen, Ph.D. (The Johns Hopkins University, 1998), is associate professor of English at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of British Romanticism and Continental Influences and many essays on 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.

• 1 Introduction: Framing NatureHannes Bergthaller and Peter MortensenPart 1: Literary Frames2 Framing in Literary Energy NarrativesAxel Goodbody3 Narrating in Fluid Frames: Overcoming Anthropocentrism in Zora Neale Hurston’s Early Short Fiction on RiversMatthias Klestil4 320 Million Years, a Century, a Quarter of a Mile, a Couple of Paces: Framing the ‘Good Step’ in Tim Robinson’s Stones of AranPippa MarlandPart 2: History, Politics, and National Frames5 Ghosts, Power, and the Natures of Nature: Reconstructing the World of Jón Guðmundsson the LearnedViðar Hreinsson6 Reframing Sacred Natural Sites as National Monuments in Estonia: Shifts in Nature-Culture InteractionsOtt Heinapuu7 Animals in Norwegian Political Party Programs: A Critical ReadingMorten Tønnessen8 Chemical Unknowns: Preliminary Outline for an Environmental History of FearMichael Egan9 Czeching American Nature Images in the Work of Robinson Jeffers and John SteinbeckPetr KopeckýPart 3: Framing Nature on Screen10 Black-and-White Telecasting? Water Pollution on Finnish and Estonian Television during the Cold WarOttoaleksi Tähkäpää and Simo Laakkonen11 Who’s Framing Whom? Surrealism and Science in the Documentaries of Jean PainlevéKathryn St. Ours12 Cognitivist Film Theory and the Bioculturalist Turn in Eco-Film StudiesDavid IngramPart 4: Teaching Frames13 Framing the Alien, Teaching District 9Roman Bartosch14 The Nature Study Idea: Framing Nature for Children in Early Twentieth Century SchoolsDorothy Kass15 Matter, Meaning, and the Classroom: A Case-StudyIsabel Hoving16 Postscript: Framing the Environmental HumanitiesHannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen