The Nature of Cities : Ecocriticism and Urban Environment

Acknowledgments vii Part 1. The Nature of Cities Urban Ecocriticism: An Introduction 3(12) Michael Bennett David W. Teague The Social Claim on Urban Ecology 15(18) Andrew Ross Michael Bennett Part 2. Urban Nature Writing London Here and Now: Walking, Streets, and Urban Environments in English Poetry from Donne to Gay 33(22) Gary Roberts ``All Things Natural Are Strange'': Audre Lorde, Urban Nature, and Cultural Place 55(22) Kathleen R. Wallace Inculcating Wildness: Ecocomposition, Nature Writing, and the Regreening of the American Suburb 77(16) Terrell Dixon Part 3. City Parks Writers and Dilettantes: Central Park and the Literary Origins of Antebellum Urban Nature 93(18) Adam W. Sweeting Postindustrial Park or Bourgeois Playground? Preservation and Urban Restructuring at Seattle's Gas Works Park 111(26) Richard Heyman Part 4. Urban ``Wilderness'' Boyz in the Woods: Urban Wilderness in American Cinema 137(20) Andrew Light Central High and the Suburban Landscape: The Ecology of White Flight 157(12) David W. Teague Manufacturing the Ghetto: Anti-urbanism and the Spatialization of Race 169(22) Michael Bennett Part 5. Ecofeminism and the City An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Urban Environment 191(22) Catherine Villanueva Gardner ``You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman'': The Political Economy of Contemporary Cosmetics Discourse 213(20) Laura L. Sullivan Part 6. Theorizing Urban Space Darwin's City, or Life Underground: Evolution, Progress, and the Shapes of Things to Come 233(22) Joanne Gottlieb Nature in the Apartment: Humans, Pets, and the Value of Incommensurability 255(22) David R. Shumway Cosmology in the Casino: Simulacra of Nature in the Interiorized Wilderness 277(22) Michael P. Branch About the Contributors 299(4) Index 303