Transatlantic Literary Ecologies

Kevin Hutchings is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Nineteenth–Century Transatlantic Literary Ecologies, Kevin Hutchings and John MillerChapter 1: The Poetry and Agricultural Politics of Transatlantic Radicalism, 1789–93: Joel Barlow’s The Hasty Pudding, Michael DemsonChapter 2: Stewardship and Plenitude: William Bartram, the Lake Poets, and Romantic Ecology, David HigginsChapter 3: Transatlantic Extinctions and the "Vanishing American," Kevin HutchingsChapter 4: Reading the "Book of Nature": Thomas Cole and the British Romantics, Samantha HarveyChapter 5: The Ornithographies of John Clare and Henry David Thoreau, Markus PoetzschChapter 6: (Un)settling Desires: Erotics and Ecologies in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Transatlantic Romances, Daniel HannahChapter 7: The Sublime and the Dying: Landscape Aesthetics and Animal Suffering in the Boy’s–Own Fur Trade, John MillerChapter 8: John Muir, John Ruskin and the Anthropocene: Modern Painters IV and Studies in the Sierra, Terry GiffordChapter 9: Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, Transatlantic Travel Writing, and the Desolation of the Holy Land, Joshua MabieChapter 10: "No Region for Tourists and Women": Isabella Bird, Local Ecology and the Transatlantic Sphere, Amanda AdamsChapter 11: "Enchased and Lettered": Thomas Hardy’s American Readers and the Nature of Place, Adrian TaitAfterword, James C. McKusickNotes on ContributorsIndex