Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century

Introduction Section 1: Science 1. The Mesh 2. Posthuman/Postnatural: Ecocriticism and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 3. Revisiting the Virtuoso: Natural History Collectors and Their Passionate Engagement with Nature 4. Chimerical Figurations at the Monstrous Edges of Species 5. The City Refigured: Environmental Vision in a Transgenic Age Section 2: History 6. Ecopoetics and the Origins of English Literature 7. Amerindian Eden: the Divine Weekes of Du Bartas 8. Erasure by U.S. Legislation: Ruiz de Burton's Nineteenth Century Novels and the Lost Archive of Mexican American Environmental Knowledge 9. Shifting the Center: A Tradition of Environmental Literary Discourse from Africa 10. Ecomelancholia: Slavery, War and Black Ecological Imaginings Section 3: Scale 11. Home Again: Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Aesthetics of Transition 12. Reclaiming Nimby: Nuclear Waste, Jim Day, and the Rhetoric of Local Resistance 13. Imagining a Chinese Eco-City 14. "No Debt Outstanding": The Postcolonial Politics of Local Food 15. Pathways to the Sea: Involvement and the Commons in Works by Ralph Hotere, Cilla McQueen, Hone Tuwhare, and Ian Wedde. Afterword: An Interview with Elaine Scarry