DARK NATURE: anti-pastoral essays in american literature and culture

Table of ContentsRichard J. Schneider, \"Introduction\"Dark Nature and the American Canon1.Gina Claywell, \"\'Famine is a Frightful Monster\': Constructing Nature in Colonial Road Trips by Sarah Kemble Knight and William Byrd II\"2.Elizabeth Kubek, \"`Passage into New Forms\': The Negative Ecologies of Charles Brockden Brown\"3.Mark Henderson, \"Dutchmen on the Brink:  The Ghost Ship as Avatar of Dark (American) Nature in Poe\'s `MS. Found in a Bottle.\'\"4.Jesse Curran, \"Thoreau\'s Week and the Work of the Eco-lament\"5.Frederico Bellini, \"The Gnostic Dark Side of Nature in Herman Melville and Cormac McCarthy: Carrying the Fire out of Arcadia\"6.Jennifer Schell, \"Fiendish Fumaroles and Malevolent Mud Pots: The EcoGothic Aspects of Owen Wister\'s Yellowstone Stories\"7.Monika M. Elbert, \"Frontiersmen, Robber Barons, Architects, and the Darkening Aesthetics of Nature in Willa Cather\'s A Lost Lady\"Dark Nature and New Voices8.Richard J. Schneider, \"The Dark Side of Two Nature Writing Genres: Nature Noir and Wisconsin Death Trip\" 9. Sarah Daw, \"The `dark ecology\' of the Bomb: Writing the Nuclear as a part of      `Nature\' in Cold War American Literature\" 10. T. Mera Moore Lafferty, \"The Poetry of Adele Ne Jame: Dark Nature, Cosmic Justice, and the Communion of Paradoxology\"11. Rachel Paparone, \"Anti-pastoral Imagery and the Search for Cajun Identity\"12. Dana Prodoehl, \"(Dark) Nature and Masculinity: The Anti-Pastoralism of Benjamin Percy\'s The Wilding\"13. Matthew Masucci, \"Hyperobjects, Plant Entelechy, and the Horror of Eco-Colonization in Jeff VanderMeer\'s Southern Reach Trilogy\"14. Isabel Galleymore, \"\'what\'s the world but shine//and seem\': `Radical Kitsch\' and Mark Doty\'s Environmental Poetics\"Dark Nature and the Media15. Anette Vandsoe, \"Listening to the Dark Side of Nature\"16. Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann, \"Eco-Horror Cinematic Techniques in Television Nature Documentaries: Monsters Inside Me and the Dark Side of Nature\"17. David LaRocca, \"Hunger in the Heart of Nature: Werner Herzog\'s Anti-Sentimental Dispatches from the American Wilderness (Reflections on Grizzly Man)\"