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Climate and American Literature

Part of Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture

Editor: Michael Boyden, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

Michael Boyden, Dagomar Degroot, Lauren LaFauci, David N. Livingstone, Susan Scott Parrish, Amy Hamilton, Timothy Sweet, Julia Dauer, Andrew McMurry, Sylvan Goldberg, Don James McLaughlin, Lynn Wardley, Matthew Griffiths, David Watson, Sarah Dimick, Michael Ziser, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Hannes Bergthaller, Christian Parenti

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Date Published: March 2021
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108484879

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Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to examine rhetorical and philosophical discourses that continue to propel and constrain American climate perceptions today. It explores how American literature from its inception up until the present engages with the climate, both real and perceived. Climate and American Literature attends to the central place that the climate has historically occupied in virtually all aspects of American life, from public health and medicine, over the organization of the political system and the public sphere, to the culture of sensibility, aesthetics and literary culture. It details American inflections of climate perceptions over time to offer revealing new perspectives on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
- Offers a long-term perspective on cultural constructions of climate in American society
- Reperiodizes American literary history through the lens of climate and climate perceptions
- Shows how recent debates in humanities research and wider public debates are informed by historical climate thinking
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- Date Published: March 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108484879
- length: 400 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 150 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.73kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Michael Boyden
Part I. Climate and its Discontents:
1. The climate history of North America Dagomar Degroot
2. Climate theories Lauren LaFauci
3. Climate and civilization David N. Livingstone
4. Climate and race Susan Scott Parrish
Part II. American Literary Climates:
5. Climate and American Indian literature Amy Hamilton
6. Colonial climates Michael Boyden
7. The degeneration thesis Timothy Sweet
8. The state of the air in post-revolutionary America Julia Dauer
9. The higher latitudes of the American renaissance Andrew McMurry
10. Climate and the American west Sylvan Goldberg
11. Fictions of health after miasma Don James McLaughlin
12. Naturalism, regionalism, and climate (In)determinism Lynn Wardley
13. American modernisms and climatology Matthew Griffiths
14. Postmodern climates David Watson
15. Frontiers of a shrinking world: recent American climate fiction Sarah Dimick
Part III. New Lines of Inquiry:
16. Climate and the environmental humanities Michael Ziser
17. The anthropocenic sublime: a critique Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
18. Climate and the new materialisms Hannes Bergthaller
19. A match made in hell: climate change and neoliberalism Christian Parenti
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Michael Boyden, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Michael Boyden is an associate professor of American Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Predicting the Past: The Paradoxes of American Literary History (2009). He has edited several journal issues, most recently an issue of Early American Literature on the 'New Natural History' (2019). Boyden has also edited two collected volumes, Tales of Transit Narrative Migrant Spaces in Transatlantic Perspective (with Hans Krabbendam and Liselotte Vandenbussche, 2013) and Reverberations of Revolution: Political Upheaval Seen from Afar (1750-1850) (with Elizabeth Amann, forthcoming). He is now working on a new monograph, provisionally entitled Climate and Sensibility in the American Tropics.
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Michael Boyden, Dagomar Degroot, Lauren LaFauci, David N. Livingstone, Susan Scott Parrish, Amy Hamilton, Timothy Sweet, Julia Dauer, Andrew McMurry, Sylvan Goldberg, Don James McLaughlin, Lynn Wardley, Matthew Griffiths, David Watson, Sarah Dimick, Michael Ziser, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Hannes Bergthaller, Christian Parenti