Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: Other Species
Chapter 1. The Outer Animals: Non-Othered Nonhumans in McTeague
Karin M. Danielsson
Chapter 2: Jack London and the Perils of Human Exceptionalism-or Jack London's Call for Species Interdependence
Paul Crumbley
Chapter 3: The Social Contract and Human-Animal Equality in Dreiser's "McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers"
Patti Luedecke
Chapter 4: Extinction, Genocide, and Atomic Anxiety: Storks in Hemingway's Under Kilimanjaro
Lisa Tyler
Section II: Land and Sea
Chapter 5: Environment, Emotion, and the Individual in "The Open Boat"
Rob Welch
Chapter 6: Anthropomorphism Reconsidered: Nature Faking in Jack London's "All Gold Canyon"
Paul Baggett
Chapter 7: "Love" of the Land as Agrilogistic Tragedy in O Pioneers!: Hazards while Embracing Nonhumans
Ryan Hediger
Section III: Cityscapes and Pseudonature
Chapter 8: Wharton's Architectural Imagination in The House of Mirth
Daniel Dufournaud
Chapter 9: Pseudonature in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
Jency Wilson
Chapter 10: Naturalism's Nonhuman Streets: Food and Waste in Ann Petry's Writing
Cara Erdheim Kilgallen
Section IV: Image, Object, Text
Chapter 11: Between Word and Image: Western Landscape and Photographic Rhetoric in Stephen Crane's Prose Writing
Francesca Razzi
Chapter 12: "The Cruel Radiance of What Is": The Reality of Things in James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Markku Lehtimäki
Section V: Last Things
Chapter 13 Trouble with Human-Nonhuman Distinctions in Dreiser, London, Hamilton, and Dick
Kenneth K. Brandt
Chapter 14: Davids and Goliaths: Last Days Reconciliation Between Humans and Nonhumans in Don DeLillo's Zero K and Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos
Ingemar Haag
Chapter 15: Writing What Remains: Naturalism and the Nonhuman after Nature in Sheri S. Tepper's Plague of Angels Trilogy
Stephanie Studzinski
Index
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