Beschreibung:
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection demonstrates how eighteenth-century studies can be taught through the lens of the environmental humanities. Activating topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism to interpret eighteenth-century literature and culture, each essay includes recommendations for innovative teaching and learning.
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 Dennis’s Indigenous Women and their DisastersMatt DuquèsChapter 9: Imagining Decolonial Futures in William Gilbert’s 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