Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nineteenth–Century Transatlantic Literary Ecologies, Kevin Hutchings and John Miller
Chapter 1: The Poetry and Agricultural Politics of Transatlantic Radicalism, 1789–93: Joel Barlow’s The Hasty Pudding, Michael Demson
Chapter 2: Stewardship and Plenitude: William Bartram, the Lake Poets, and Romantic Ecology, David Higgins
Chapter 3: Transatlantic Extinctions and the "Vanishing American," Kevin Hutchings
Chapter 4: Reading the "Book of Nature": Thomas Cole and the British Romantics, Samantha Harvey
Chapter 5: The Ornithographies of John Clare and Henry David Thoreau, Markus Poetzsch
Chapter 6: (Un)settling Desires: Erotics and Ecologies in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Transatlantic Romances, Daniel Hannah
Chapter 7: The Sublime and the Dying: Landscape Aesthetics and Animal Suffering in the Boy’s–Own Fur Trade, John Miller
Chapter 8: John Muir, John Ruskin and the Anthropocene: Modern Painters IV and Studies in the Sierra, Terry Gifford
Chapter 9: Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad, Transatlantic Travel Writing, and the Desolation of the Holy Land, Joshua Mabie
Chapter 10: "No Region for Tourists and Women": Isabella Bird, Local Ecology and the Transatlantic Sphere, Amanda Adams
Chapter 11: "Enchased and Lettered": Thomas Hardy’s American Readers and the Nature of Place, Adrian Tait
Afterword, James C. McKusick
Notes on Contributors
Index