Writing What Remains: Naturalism and the Nonhuman after Nature in Sheri S. Tepper's Plague of Angels Trilogy / Stephanie Studzinski. Jack London and the Perils of Human Exceptionalism / Paul Crumbley -- The Social Contract and Human-Animal Equality in Dreiser's "McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers" / Patti Luedecke -- Extinction, Genocide, and Atomic Anxiety: Storks in Hemingway's Under Kilimanjaro / Lisa Tyler -- Environment, Emotion, and the Individual in "The Open Boat" / Rob Welch -- Anthropomorphism Reconsidered: Nature Faking in Jack London's "All Gold Canyon" / Paul Baggett -- "Love" of the Land as Agrilogistic Tragedy in O Pioneers!: Hazards while Embracing Nonhumans / Ryan Hediger -- Wharton's Architectural Imagination in The House of Mirth / Daniel Dufournaud -- Pseudonature in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth / Jency Wilson -- Naturalism's Nonhuman Streets: Food and Waste in Ann Petry's Writing / Cara Erdheim Kilgallen -- Between Word and Image: Western Landscape and Photographic Rhetoric in Stephen Crane's Prose Writing / Francesca Razzi -- "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 -- Trouble with Human-Nonhuman Distinctions in Dreiser, London, Hamilton, and Dick / Kenneth K. Brandt -- Davids and Goliaths: Last Days Reconciliation Between Humans and Nonhumans in Don DeLillo's Zero K and Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos / Ingemar Haag -- Writing What Remains: Naturalism and the Nonhuman after Nature in Sheri S. Tepper's Plague of Angels Trilogy / Stephanie Studzinski.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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