... University Press 2016 Anthropocene terraforming urban ecology urban literature speculative fiction When we think of “the land” and its literary representations, what usually comes to mind are the rural landscapes of Thomas Hardy or Willa Cather, the wild landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper, the social...

... bounds of the real. Rather than simply arguing for the novel as a representation of the London climate, however, it argues for the novel as a model, materializing the urban climate in its formal atmosphere—those apparently trivial or insignificant details often held responsible only for creating the...

... urban space. I am ultimately interested in how these subjectivities inform various imaginations of futurity—catastrophic, deconstructive, and regenerative—within a country in which, as Imraan Coovadia has written, “the conditions for transcending the present are hardly to be conceived” (51). Copyright...

.... New York: Vintage, 1990. . Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and The imagination of Disaster. New York: Vintage, 1998. Dubey, Madhu. "Folk and Urban Communities In African-American Women's Fiction: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower." Studies in American Fiction 27 (1999): 103...

... : Animals in Romantic-Period Writing. Burlington : Ashgate , 2001 . Kleinberg-Levin David Michael . Before the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty's Ecology and Levinas's Ethics . New York : State U of New York P , 2008 . Langer Monika . “Nietzsche, Heidegger...

... human but rather an exhausted submission to the ecology of death of which she has already become a part, the Marian metaphor a weightless shimmer with no obviously grounded referent. With no direction from the narrator, it is up to the reader to read the Marian typology and sustain Turtle as someone who...

... to reference the "Urban Revolution" (McClellan and Dorn 31) specifically. The first civic societies formed in the Near East more than 6,000 years ago, specifically in desert zones, around the necessity of irrigation, a vast technological undertaking that required despotic centraliza- tion...

... meticulous precision. If urban readers are made to share the vil- lage’s perception of space, then, it is also true that this space has been thoroughly gen- trified; as if Mitford had traveled forward in time, and discovered what city-dwellers will want to find in the countryside during a brief...

... profitably grasped in the context of the rise of urban-industrial modernity, inquiry has subsequently crossed over into several new regions. On the one hand, interrogations of the existing canon have made room for explorations of previously ignored literary enterprises. On the other, assorted...

... landscape of European realism and its virtual populations—before turning to the figure of the animal to investigate Hardy's use of chance and probability in the construction of Wessex's symbolic ecology. I will argue that the figure of the animal helps articulate two parallel developments: the gradual...

... . “Corridor Spaces.” Critical Inquiry 36 . 4 ( 2010 ): 728 – 70 . Kittler Friedrich A. Discourse Networks 1800 / 1900 Trans. Cullens Chris Metteer Michael . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1990 . Klimasmith Elizabeth . At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American...

... original practical ecological phi- losophers of the world, through the slow attentive, mind-changing (on both sides), ethical singularity that deserves the name of 'love"' (Spivak, lmaginary 201), a "structural possibility" exists that, despite every effort to decode their se- cret, the...

... characters that rarely resurfaced outside one microplot. Dickens's urban sketches similarly featured abbreviated scenes and discrete vignettes published in newspapers as “little pictures of life and manners” ( Sketches 7 ). As he began to write novels, Dickens continued to consider his work as accumulative...