Category: Ecocriticism

Richard J. Schneider, Civilizing Thoreau: Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2016), 212 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 Thanks largely to the magnificent work of Robert Richardson (Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, 1986) and Robert Sattelmeyer (Thoreau’s Reading, 1988), Thoreauvians have for some…

Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 2016), 176 pp. Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall, and Stephanie LeMenager, eds., Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (London/New York: Routledge, 2017), 294 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 Despite its grave threat, climate change continues to be treated…

Alexa Weik von Mossner, Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative (Ohio State UP, 2017), 271 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 One oft-repeated tale from the American Civil War era has it that Abraham Lincoln greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as “the little woman who wrote the…

Hubert Zapf, ed., Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2016), 715 pp. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 Gathering together many of the most inspiring international ecocritics all in one volume, Zapf’s Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology amps up the volume for environmental humanities; indeed, this is easily one of the…

RICHARD J. SCHNEIDER, Civilizing Thoreau: Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2016), 212 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies Thanks largely to the magnificent work of Robert Richardson (Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, 1986) and Robert Sattelmeyer (Thoreau’s Reading, 1988), Thoreauvians have for some time been…

AMITAV GOSH, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 2016), 176 pp. STEPHEN SIPERSTEIN, SHANE HALL, and STEPHANIE LEMENAGER, eds., Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (London/New York: Routledge, 2017), 294 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 Despite its grave threat, climate change continues to be treated as…

Alexa Weik von Mossner, Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative (Ohio State UP, 2017), 271 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 One oft-repeated tale from the American Civil War era has it that Abraham Lincoln greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as “the little woman who wrote the book…

Hubert Zapf, ed., Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2016), 715 pp. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 63.3 Gathering together many of the most inspiring international ecocritics all in one volume, Zapf’s Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology amps up the volume for environmental humanities; indeed, this is easily one of the very…