To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Whaling Wives, Life Writing, and Sentimental Extraction in the 19th Century Pacific
Ecologies of Docility and Control: Environmental Fantasy and Extractive Economy at a Maryland Girls Boarding School, 1834–1868
The Melancholy of Extraction: Settler Sentimentality in Canada’s Ahistorical Era of Economic Reconciliation
“Mute Endurance”: Precarious Planting and Affective Ecologies in Native American Novels
Pains, Planes, and Automobiles: Extractivist Nostalgia in Mad Men
Feeling Senti-metal: Frontier Nostalgia, Mining Masculinity & Corporate Landscapes in the U.S. American Reality TV Series Gold Rush
Sentimentality, Sacrifice, and Oil: Reckoning with Offshore Extractive Trauma
On Some Absent Presences of Nuclear Extractivism: Retrofuturist Aesthetics and Fallout 4
“All of That Wealth Underneath”: How the Logic of Extraction Blocks Discourses of Sustainability in the U.S.
“Lots of Troubling Ideologies”: A Conversation with Writer Jennifer Haigh about Region, Extractivism, and Nostalgia
“This Is Our Barn”: Agrarian Sentimentality and the Fracking Formula in Promised Land
A Conversation with Cara Daggett about Affect, Sentimentality, and Extractivism
Oil Ancestors: Relating to Petroleum as Kin
Contributors