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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Karin M. Danielsson is associate professor in English at Mälardalen University. Kenneth K. Brandt is professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design.Karin M. Danielsson is associate professor in English at Mälardalen University. Kenneth K. Brandt is professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Summary
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.
