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Index
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Color Plates
List of Contributors
1 Introduction
Part 1 Political Ecologies and the Movement of Things
2 “A Demonstration to the World”: Art, Political Ecology and the Global American Civil War
3 Crafting “Nature”: Ecocriticism, Environmental Violence and the Transnational Arts and Crafts Movement
4 An Ecolonial Reassessment of the Indian Craze: Elbridge Ayer Burbank and Standing Bear
5 The Panama Canal Zone as a Hybrid Landscape: A Case Study
Part 2 Material Ecologies: Climates and Extractive Logics
6 “A Gruesome Sight”: Randolph Rogers’s Nydia in a Marble World
7 Cryoscapes: Snow and Fantasies of Freezing in the Art of George Henry Durrie
8 Picturing Industrial Landscapes: Ecocriticism in Constantin Meunier’s and Maximilien Luce’s Paintings of Belgium’s Black Country
9 Ruskin’s Storm-Cloud and Tyndall’s Blue Sky: New Materialist Diffractions of Nineteenth-Century Atmospheres
Part 3 Depletion and Conservation of Natural Resources
10 Gilded Age Dining: Eco-Anxiety, Fisheries Management and the Presidential China of Rutherford B. Hayes
11 Shifting Baselines, or Reading Art through Fish
12 “A Better Acquaintanceship with Our Fellows of the Wild”: George Shiras and the Limits of Trap Camera Photography
Part 4 Natural Histories/Animal Agencies
13 Petting Billy: Albert Laessle’s Significant Other(ness)
14 Looking at Leviathan: The First Live Cetaceans in Britain
15 How to Wear the Feather: Bird Hats and Ecocritical Aesthetics
16 Visualizations of “Nature”: Entomology and Ecological Envisioning in the Art of Willem Roelofs and Vincent van Gogh
Part 5 Agriculture and Resource Husbandry
17 Coffee House Slip: Ecocriticism and Global Trade in Francis Guy’s Tontine Coffee House, N.Y.C.
18 “A Haunch of a Countess”: John Constable and the Deer Park at Helmingham Hall
19 Cultivating Fruit and Equality: The Still-Life Paintings of Robert Duncanson
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