The nonhuman in American literary naturalism / edited by Kenneth K. Brandt and Karin M. Danielsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandt, Kenneth K., 1969- editor.

Danielsson, Karin Molander, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Naturalism in literature.

Animals in literature.

Landscapes in literature.

Extraterrestrial beings in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 275 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

Contents:

<P><span>Contents</span></p><p></p><p><span>Acknowledgments</span></p><p></p><p><span>Introduction</span></p><p></p><p><span>Section I: Other Species </span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 1. The Outer Animals: Non-Othered Nonhumans in McTeague </span></p><p><span>Karin M. Danielsson</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 2: Jack London and the Perils of Human Exceptionalism

or Jack London's Call for Species Interdependence </span></p><p><span>Paul Crumbley</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 3: The Social Contract and Human-Animal Equality in Dreiser's "McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers" </span></p><p><span>Patti Luedecke</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 4: Extinction, Genocide, and Atomic Anxiety: Storks in Hemingway's Under Kilimanjaro</span></p><p><span>Lisa Tyler </span></p><p></p><p><span>Section II: Land and Sea</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 5: Environment, Emotion, and the Individual in "The Open Boat" </span></p><p><span>Rob Welch</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 6: Anthropomorphism Reconsidered: Nature Faking in Jack London's "All Gold Canyon" </span></p><p><span>Paul Baggett</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 7: "Love" of the Land as Agrilogistic Tragedy in O Pioneers!: Hazards while Embracing Nonhumans </span></p><p><span>Ryan Hediger</span></p><p></p><p><span>Section III: Cityscapes and Pseudonature</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 8: Wharton's Architectural Imagination in The House of Mirth </span></p><p><span>Daniel Dufournaud</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 9: Pseudonature in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth </span></p><p><span>Jency Wilson</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 10: Naturalism's Nonhuman Streets: Food and Waste in Ann Petry's Writing</span></p><p><span>Cara Erdheim Kilgallen</span></p><p></p><p><span>Section IV: Image, Object, Text</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 11: Between Word and Image: Western Landscape and Photographic Rhetoric in Stephen Crane's Prose Writing </span></p><p><span>Francesca Razzi</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 12: "The Cruel Radiance of What Is": The Reality of Things in James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men </span></p><p><span>Markku Lehtimäki</span></p><p></p><p><span>Section V: Last Things</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 13 Trouble with Human-Nonhuman Distinctions in Dreiser, London, Hamilton, and Dick</span></p><p><span>Kenneth K. Brandt </span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 14: Davids and Goliaths: Last Days Reconciliation Between Humans and Nonhumans in Don DeLillo's Zero K and Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos </span></p><p><span>Ingemar Haag</span></p><p></p><p><span>Chapter 15: Writing What Remains: Naturalism and the Nonhuman after Nature in Sheri S. Tepper's Plague of Angels Trilogy </span></p><p><span>Stephanie Studzinski</span></p><p></p><p><span>Index</span></p><p></p><p><span>About the Contributors</span></p><p></p>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Nonhuman in American literary naturalism

ISBN:

9781666915716

1666915718

Publisher Number:

40031975809

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