Climate and American Literature

Introduction Michael Boyden; Part I. Climate and its Discontents: 1. The climate history of North America Dagomar Degroot; 2. Climate theories Lauren LaFauci; 3. Climate and civilization David N. Livingstone; 4. Climate and race Susan Scott Parrish; Part II. American Literary Climates: 5. Climate and American Indian literature Amy Hamilton; 6. Colonial climates Michael Boyden; 7. The degeneration thesis Timothy Sweet; 8. The state of the air in post-revolutionary America Julia Dauer; 9. The higher latitudes of the American renaissance Andrew McMurry; 10. Climate and the American west Sylvan Goldberg; 11. Fictions of health after miasma Don James McLaughlin; 12. Naturalism, regionalism, and climate (In)determinism Lynn Wardley; 13. American modernisms and climatology Matthew Griffiths; 14. Postmodern climates David Watson; 15. Frontiers of a shrinking world: recent American climate fiction Sarah Dimick; Part III. New Lines of Inquiry: 16. Climate and the environmental humanities Michael Ziser; 17. The anthropocenic sublime: a critique Jean-Baptiste Fressoz; 18. Climate and the new materialisms Hannes Bergthaller; 19. A match made in hell: climate change and neoliberalism Christian Parenti; Bibliography; Index.