...Susan Scott Parrish Environmental Practice and Early American Literature . By Ziser Michael . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2013 . ii , 224 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; e-book, $72.00 . Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics . By...

..., and tone coalesce into a melancholy political ecology. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Nicole M. Cosmopolis: Merola Don DeLillo’s Melancholy Political Ecology Don DeLillo opens his 2003 novel Cosmopolis with an epigraph from Zbigniew Herbert’s poem “Report...

... fiction of a lesbian who sometimes enjoyed reading around in ‘‘the male homo- 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 196 of 232 sexual literary tradition Melissa Solomon, Duke University Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry...

... of Fear: Edgar Allan Poe Taylor and Posthuman Ecology What is the place of fear in ecocriticism? Simon Estok addresses this question at length in a recent issue of Interdisci- plinary Studies in Literature and Environment, arguing that the West’s longstanding “fear...

... texts that take up this mode of invested indirection in their content and form alike, she argues for a spinster ecology that alters our notion not only of where the future lies but also of how (or if) it arrives. Ensor turns first to Silent Spring to argue that Rachel Carson’s intransitive understanding...

...Betsy Klimasmith Duke University Press 2007 Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature . By Jeffrey Myers. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 188 pp. $39.95. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories...

...Matthew Wynn Sivils © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature . By Christopher Rieger. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2009. x, 202 pp. $39.75. Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of...

...Jamin Creed Rowan Rowan's essay traces the emergence of a new ecological discourse that began to shape thinking about urban life across disciplines in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, urban institutions such as the New Yorker embraced what historians Michael Barbour, Robert McIntosh, and...

...Ursula K. Heise © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century . By Neil W. Browne. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xiv, 224 pp. $38.50. Women Writing Nature...

... classroom’s contingency, temporariness, and interpersonal exposure yield a form of queer kinship that is contracted rather than intentionally developed. This kinship, a social iteration of the unintentional, symbiotic collaborations that anthropologists have described as “emergent ecologies,” burgeons in the...

... Media Ecology . By Punday Daniel . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . 2012 . xi, 267 pp . $60.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The idea that media work ecologically, interacting in complex systems irreducible to models of competition or replacement, has become a...

...Margaret Konkol Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 . By Kilcup Karen L. . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2013 . xv, 504 pp. Cloth , $75.95 ; Paper, $32.95 ; e-book, $26.95 . The Ecology of Modernism...

... . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2015 . vii, 260 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts . By Zapf Hubert . London : Bloomsbury . 2016 . ix, 301 pp. Cloth , $114.00 ; e-book, $28.99 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke...

... never be a real, political opposition Anna Brickhouse, University of Colorado, Boulder Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. By Michael A. Bryson. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2002. xvii, 228 pp...

...Molly Wallace Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species . By Ursula K. Heise . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2016 . xiii, 280 pp. Cloth, $82.50 ; paper $27.50 ; e-book available. Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature . By...

... Ecological Imagination, 1929–1941. By Brad D. Lookingbill. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2001. x, 190 pp. Paper, $16.95. Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography. By Mark Allister...

... she refers both to the ecological substance of the polar regions, in their remove from predictable routes and terms of exchange; and to the imaginative and literary outcomes of polar exploration, which themselves did not follow recognizable circuits. Not just another geopolitical space, the polar...

... sentimental antislavery rhetorics for which he is known in favor of a newly pragmatic antislavery logic focused on slavery’s unsustainability—its tendency to exhaust the soil. This argument has two main aims: to explore Douglass’s engagement with ecological and economic antislavery rhetorics, and, more...

... environmental investment and scientific interest. In line with much environmental writing, the novel aspires to increase readers’ awareness of their surroundings as a way to promote ecological protection. However, it also rethinks the trajectories of wonder under the pressures of neurological injury. The novel...