The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894
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At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, Louis Kirk McAuley invites us to consider the ways in which particular unruly natures, including animals, plants and minerals, actively intervene in literature to decentre the human. Drawing upon invasion biology, McAuley offers transformative ecocritical interpretations of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature and highlights the heterarchical nature of empire building. This includes analyses of texts composed by (or about) persons residing at, or just outside, the edges of the British and American Empires, including St Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, Cuba, Hawaii and Samoa, which were built around the global transfer of animals and plants. Offering biotic readings of this literature, McAuley highlights the human place in nature and provides practical literary examples of the ways oceans facilitate the confusion of time and place.
Dr Louis Kirk McAuley has been Associate Professor in the Department of English at Washington State University, USA, since 2014. He has published a number of articles and book chapters, as well as his first book Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 (Bucknell University Press, 2013).
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Prefac
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unruly Natures
1. The Evolution of Robinson Crusoe’s World-Ecological Consciousness
2. The Poetics of Biological Invasion and Crop Monoculture in Early Caribbean Literature
3. Capitalism, Domestic Violence, and the "Botany of Desire" in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo
4. Robert Louis Stevenson and the "Horror of Creeping Things"
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399527156 / 9781399527156 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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