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The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism

Buch | Hardcover
286 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1570-9 (ISBN)
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This volume includes theoretically innovative essays focusing on the nonhuman by writers working in the tradition of American literary naturalism from the 1890s to the present day.
The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism offers a new perspective on American literary naturalism that considers those under-researched aspects of the genre that can be gathered under the term the Nonhuman. The contributors, an international team of scholars, have turned their attention to that which becomes visible when the human subject is skirted, or perhaps, temporarily at least, moved off-center: in other words, the representation of nonhuman animals and other vital or inert species, things, entities, cityscapes and seascapes, that also appear and play an important part in American literary naturalism. Informed by animal studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, new materialism, and other recent theoretical and philosophical perspectives, the essays in this collection discuss early naturalist texts by Norris, Crane, Dreiser, London, Wharton and Cather, as well as more recent followers in the tradition of American literary naturalism: Hemingway, Agee & Evans, Petry, Hamilton, Dick, Vonnegut, Tepper, and DeLillo. The collection responds to a need to expand and refine the connections among nonhuman studies and texts associated with American literary naturalism and to productively expand the scholarly discourse surrounding this vital movement in American literary history.

Karin Molander Danielsson is senior lecturer in English at Mälardalen University, Sweden. Kenneth K. Brandt is professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: Other Species

Chapter 1. The Outer Animals: Non-Othered Nonhumans in McTeague

Karin M. Danielsson

Chapter 2: Jack London and the Perils of Human Exceptionalism—or Jack London’s Call for Species Interdependence

Paul Crumbley

Chapter 3: The Social Contract and Human-Animal Equality in Dreiser’s “McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers”

Patti Luedecke

Chapter 4: Extinction, Genocide, and Atomic Anxiety: Storks in Hemingway’s Under Kilimanjaro

Lisa Tyler

Section II: Land and Sea

Chapter 5: Environment, Emotion, and the Individual in “The Open Boat”

Rob Welch

Chapter 6: Anthropomorphism Reconsidered: Nature Faking in Jack London’s “All Gold Canyon”

Paul Baggett

Chapter 7: “Love” of the Land as Agrilogistic Tragedy in O Pioneers!: Hazards while Embracing Nonhumans

Ryan Hediger

Section III: Cityscapes and Pseudonature

Chapter 8: Wharton’s Architectural Imagination in The House of Mirth

Daniel Dufournaud

Chapter 9: Pseudonature in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth

Jency Wilson

Chapter 10: Naturalism’s Nonhuman Streets: Food and Waste in Ann Petry’s Writing

Cara Erdheim Kilgallen

Section IV: Image, Object, Text

Chapter 11: Between Word and Image: Western Landscape and Photographic Rhetoric in Stephen Crane’s Prose Writing

Francesca Razzi

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

Markku Lehtimäki

Section V: Last Things

Chapter 13 Trouble with Human-Nonhuman Distinctions in Dreiser, London, Hamilton, and Dick

Kenneth K. Brandt

Chapter 14: Davids and Goliaths: Last Days Reconciliation Between Humans and Nonhumans in Don DeLillo’s Zero K and Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos

Ingemar Haag

Chapter 15: Writing What Remains: Naturalism and the Nonhuman after Nature in Sheri S. Tepper’s Plague of Angels Trilogy

Stephanie Studzinski

Index

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor Paul Baggett, Paul Crumbley, Daniel Dufournaud
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 626 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-6669-1570-X / 166691570X
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-1570-9 / 9781666915709
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