Description: Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities by Jeremy Chow, Elliot Patsoura, Annette Hulbert, Adam Sweeting, Shelby Johnson, Mariah Crilley, Claire Campbell, Jason Payton, Matt Duquès A groundbreaking volume that unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. Contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use. Author Biography Jeremy Chow is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His scholarship explores the relationships among eighteenth-century literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and gender and sexuality studies. Table of Contents List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Eighteenth Century + Environmental HumanitiesJeremy ChowPart I: Eighteenth Century + Climate ChangeChapter 1: Towards a Genealogy of Geoengineering: Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice AgeElliot Patsoura Chapter 2: Storm ApostropheAnnette Hulbert Chapter 3: "When Stormy Winds Happen": Divine Providence, Climate Change Discourse, and the Cause of Weather DisastersAdam W. SweetingPart II: Eighteenth Century + New Materialisms Chapter 4: Phillis Wheatley Peters Niobean SoundscapesShelby Johnson Chapter 5: Syphilis and Natural History: The Ethical Limits of Human MasteryMariah Crilley Part III: Eighteenth Century + Blue HumanitiesChapter 6: Shore/Lines: Drawing Environmental Change on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island Claire Campbell Chapter 7: Of Water, Wind, and Storms: The Elemental Regimes of the Buccaneer JournalJason PaytonPart IV: Eighteenth Century + Indigeneity and DecolonialityChapter 8: "Supporting Sinking Nations": John Denniss Indigenous Women and their DisastersMatt DuquèsChapter 9: Imagining Decolonial Futures in William Gilberts The HurricaneAmi YoonPart V: Eighteenth Century + Green UtopiasChapter 10: Slavery and Plantation Stewardship: The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip FreneauChristopher Allan BlackChapter 11: John Thelwell and L.M. Montgomery Write the Green CityKate ScarthAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex Review "A welcome teaching tool for the undergraduate course in eighteenth-century studies—if you want to integrate environmental studies into your class but dont know where to begin, start here." -- Lucinda Cole * author of Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740 *"A field-defining collection, Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities demonstrates how the emergent methodologies of the environmental humanities illuminate and are in turn enriched by the study of eighteenth-century history and cultural production." -- Peter Remien * author of The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature *"This innovative collection brilliantly addresses the challenge of studying and teaching the eighteenth century from an Anthropocene vantage. The wide-ranging essays explore the meaning of environmental justice for eighteenth-century writers reckoning with the socio-ecological violence of transatlantic empire." -- Tobias Menely * author of Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics *"A provocative and compelling case for centering the eighteenth century within environmental humanities. This interdisciplinary collection of essays will be of great interest and lasting value to literary scholars and teachers, and it will serve as a touchstone for all future work at the intersections of eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities." -- Seth Reno * editor of The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities *"Bringing together eleven tightly argued essays in a cohesive, innovative, and approachable volume, Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities embodies the deeply generative possibilities of envisioning how the fields of eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities can mutually inform, enrich, and interrogate each other." * Eighteenth-Century Fiction * Long Description This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use. Review Quote "This innovative collection brilliantly addresses the challenge of studying and teaching the eighteenth century from an Anthropocene vantage. The wide-ranging essays explore the meaning of environmental justice for eighteenth-century writers reckoning with the socio-ecological violence of transatlantic empire." Description for Reader Jeremy Chow is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His scholarship explores the relationships among eighteenth-century literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and gender and sexuality studies. Details ISBN1684484286 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1684484286 ISBN-13 9781684484287 Format Paperback Place of Publication New Brunswick, NJ Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2022-11-11 NZ Release Date 2022-11-11 UK Release Date 2022-11-11 Author Matt Duquès Pages 262 Edited by Jeremy Chow DEWEY 304.209033 Audience Age 18-99 Publisher Bucknell University Press,U.S. Series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 Publication Date 2022-11-11 Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S. Alternative 9781684484294 Illustrations 20 color images US Release Date 2022-11-11 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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