Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities / edited by Jeremy Chow.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Chow, Jeremy, editor.

Series:

• Transits (Bucknell University)
• Transits

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Human ecology and the humanities--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Introduction : eighteenth century + environmental humanities / Jeremy Chow
• Toward a genealogy of geoengineering : Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice Age / Elliot Patsoura
• Storm apostrophe / Annette Hulbert
• "When stormy winds happen" : divine providence, climate change discourse, and the cause of weather disasters / Adam W. Sweeting
• Phillis Wheatley Peters's Niobean soundscapes / Shelby Johnson
• Syphilis and natural history : the ethical limits of human mastery / Mariah Crilley
• Shore/lines : drawing environmental change on eighteenth-century Prince Edward Island / Claire Campbell
• Of water, wind, and storms : the elemental regimes of the Buccaneer journal / Jason Payton
• "Supporting sinking nations" : John Dennis's indigenous women and their disasters / Matt Duques
• Imagining decolonial futures in William Gilbert's The hurricane / Ami Yoon
• Slavery and plantation stewardship : the eighteenth-century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip Freneau / Christopher Allan Black
• John Thelwell and L.M. Montgomery write the green city / Kate Scarth.

Notes:

• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Chow, Jeremy Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

ISBN:

• 9781684484324
• 1684484324

OCLC:

1347019132