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This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.
List of contents
Part I: Past Narratives of Environmental Crisis
Chapter 1: The Peculiar Associations of Melville's "Encantadas": Nature and National Allegory
Kristen R. Egan
Chapter 2: Making a Difference? Richard Jefferies' After London, E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," and Climate Change Fiction
Adrian Tait
Chapter 3: Stories of "Being-with" Other Animals: A Case of Humans and Horses
Mary Trachsel
Part II: Witnessing
Chapter 4: Animal Texts: How Coyote America and American Wolf Embody the Literary Animal Through A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Lauren E. Perry
Chapter 5: Beautiful and Sublime: Embracing Otherness in Mary Oliver's Ecopoetry
Anastasia Cardone
Chapter 6: The Sea's Witness: Narration, Texturisation and Reader Responsibility in Rachel Carson's Oceanalia
Lauren O'Mahony
Part 3: Nonhuman Agency/Representation of the Nonhuman
Chapter 7: The Posthuman Return: Transformation through Stillness in Richard Powers's The Overstory
Owen Harry
Chapter 8: Classifying Monsters
Vera Veldhuizen
Chapter 9:
About the author
Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.Sune Borkfelt is lecturer at Aarhus University and author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity.Lauren E. Perry-Rummel teaches English literature at the University of Arizona and the University of New Mexico and is an instructional designer at the University of New Mexico.Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator at the Centre for Studies in Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.Adrian Tait is an ecocritic with a particular interest in Victorian and modernist literary responses to environmental crisis.
