{"product_id":"dark-nature-9781498528115","title":"Dark Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the concept of âœdark ecologyâ and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspective to ecocriticism, this collection of essays on American literature and culture offers examples of how a vision of natureâs darker side can create a fuller understanding of humanityâs relation to nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on Timothy Morton’s concept of 'dark ecology,' Richard Schneider, a leading Thoreau scholar, has assembled a wide-ranging collection of essays that explore an American literary tradition of disturbing, sinister, and fearful encounters with nature. These 'anti-pastoral' writings provide new perspectives on the continually expanding discourse of ecocriticism. -- David M. Robinson, Oregon State University\u003cbr\u003eOffering smart treatments of nature’s disinterest, disease, and horrors, these canon-busting essays on both historical and contemporary print and non-print media jolt ecocriticism away from any remaining tendency to rest in pastoral idealism. -- Rochelle Johnson, College of Idaho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents  Richard J. Schneider, “Introduction” Dark Nature and the American Canon 1.Gina Claywell, “’Famine is a Frightful Monster’: Constructing Nature in Colonial Road Trips by Sarah Kemble Knight and William Byrd II” 2.Elizabeth Kubek, “‘Passage into New Forms’: The Negative Ecologies of Charles Brockden Brown” 3.Mark Henderson, “Dutchmen on the Brink:  The Ghost Ship as Avatar of Dark (American) Nature in Poe’s ‘MS. Found in a Bottle.’” 4.Jesse Curran, “Thoreau’s Week and the Work of the Eco-lament” 5.Frederico Bellini, “The Gnostic Dark Side of Nature in Herman Melville and Cormac McCarthy: Carrying the Fire out of Arcadia” 6.Jennifer Schell, “Fiendish Fumaroles and Malevolent Mud Pots: The EcoGothic Aspects of Owen Wister’s Yellowstone Stories” 7.Monika M. Elbert, “Frontiersmen, Robber Barons, Architects, and the Darkening Aesthetics of Nature in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady”  Dark Nature and New Voices 8.Richard J. Schneider, “The Dark Side of Two Nature Writing Genres: Nature Noir and Wisconsin Death Trip”  9. Sarah Daw, “The ‘dark ecology’ of the Bomb: Writing the Nuclear as a part of       ‘Nature’ in Cold War American Literature”  10. T. Mera Moore Lafferty, “The Poetry of Adele Ne Jame: Dark Nature, Cosmic Justice, and the Communion of Paradoxology” 11. Rachel Paparone, “Anti-pastoral Imagery and the Search for Cajun Identity” 12. Dana Prodoehl, “(Dark) Nature and Masculinity: The Anti-Pastoralism of Benjamin Percy’s The Wilding” 13. Matthew Masucci, “Hyperobjects, Plant Entelechy, and the Horror of Eco-Colonization in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy” 14. Isabel Galleymore, “’what’s the world but shine\/\/and seem’: ‘Radical Kitsch’ and Mark Doty’s Environmental Poetics”  Dark Nature and the Media 15. Anette Vandsoe, “Listening to the Dark Side of Nature” 16. Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann, “Eco-Horror Cinematic Techniques in Television Nature Documentaries: Monsters Inside Me and the Dark Side of Nature” 17. David LaRocca, “Hunger in the Heart of Nature: Werner Herzog’s Anti-Sentimental Dispatches from the American Wilderness (Reflections on Grizzly Man)”","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040693518679,"sku":"9781498528115","price":94.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498528115.jpg?v=1750947540","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dark-nature-9781498528115","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}