Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

Published by Bucknell University Press 2023

Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

Edited by: Jeremy Chow
With contributions by: Jeremy Chow , Elliot Patsoura , Annette Hulbert , Adam Sweeting , Shelby Johnson , Mariah Crilley , Claire Campbell , Jason Payton , Matt Duquès , Ami Yoon , Christopher Allan Black and Kate Scarth

In the series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850

https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684484324

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About this book

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 / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“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

“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

“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

“A welcome teaching tool for the undergraduate course in eighteenth-century studies—if you want to integrate environmental studies into your class but don’t know where to begin, start here.”

— Lucinda Cole, author of Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740

"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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
INTRODUCTION Eighteenth Century + Environmental Humanities Jeremy Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + CLIMATE CHANGE
1 TOWARD A GENEALOGY OF GEOENGINEERING Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice Age Elliot Patsoura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 STORM APOSTROPHE Annette Hulbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 “WHEN STORMY WINDS HAPPEN” Divine Providence, Climate Change Discourse, and the Cause of Weather Disasters Adam W. Sweeting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Part Two EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + NEW MATERIALISMS
4 PHILLIS WHEATLEY PETERS’S NIOBEAN SOUNDSCAPES Shelby Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5 SYPHILIS AND NATURAL HISTORY The Ethical Limits of Human Mastery Mariah Crilley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Part Three EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + BLUE HUMANITIES
6 SHORE/LINES Drawing Environmental Change on Eighteenth- Century Prince Edward Island Claire Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7 OF WATER, WINDS, AND STORMS The Elemental Regimes of the Buccaneer Journal Jason M. Payton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Part Four EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + INDIGENEITY AND DECOLONIALITY
8 “SUPPORTING SINKING NATIONS” Indigenous Women and Their Disasters in John Dennis’s Liberty Asserted Matthew Duquès Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9 IMAGINING DECOLONIAL FUTURES IN WILLIAM GILBERT’S THE HURRICANE Ami Yoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Part Five EIGHTEENTH CENTURY + GREEN UTOPIAS
10 SLAVERY AND PLANTATION STEWARDSHIP The Eighteenth- Century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip Freneau Christopher Allan Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
11 JOHN THELWALL AND L. M. MONTGOMERY WRITE THE GREEN CITY Kate Scarth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

Language: English
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 20 color images
Keywords: eighteenth-century climate change; decoloniality; new materialisms; environmental humanities; green utopias; Prince Edward Island; Phillis Wheatley Peters; Erasmus Darwin; Little Ice Age; Indigeneity; blue humanities; William Gilbert; James Grainger; Philip Freneau; John Thelwell; L.M. Montgomery

eBook

Published: November 11, 2022
ISBN: 9781684484324