Writing for an Endangered World : Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond

Introduction 1(8) ``America the Beautiful,'' Jane Addams, and John Muir 9(9) Environmental Imagination and Environmental Unconscious 18(9) Outline of This Book 27(3) Toxic Discourse 30(25) The Toxic Denominator 32(3) Toxic Discourse Anatomized 35(10) Toxicity, Risk, and Literary Imagination 45(10) The Place of Place 55(29) The Elusiveness of Place 59(5) Five Dimensions of Place-Connectedness 64(10) The Importance of Place Imagination 74(4) Retrieval of the Unloved Place: Wideman 78(6) Flaneur's Progress: Reinhabiting the City 84(45) Romantic Urbanism: Whitman, Olmsted, and Others 90(13) High Modernism and Modern Urban Theory 103(6) Whitmanian Modernism: William Carlos Williams as Bioregionalist 109(11) Later Trajectories 120(9) Discourses of Determinism 129(41) Urban Fiction from Dickens through Wright 131(12) Rurality as Fate 143(6) Consolations of Determinism: Dreiser and Jeffers 149(8) Observing Limits in Literature and Life: Berry and Brooks 157(10) Speaking for the Determined: Addams 167(3) Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold 170(26) Faulkner as Environmental Historian 171(6) Go Down, Moses and Environmental Unconscious 177(6) Faulkner, Leopold, and Ecological Ethics 183(13) Global Commons as Resource and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales 196(28) Resymbolizing Ocean 199(6) Moby-Dick and the Hierarchies of Nation, Culture, and Species 205(9) Imagining Interspeciesism: The Lure of the Megafauna 214(10) The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Nonanthropocentric Ethics versus Environmental Justice 224(19) Schisms 225(11) Mediations 236(7) Watershed Aesthetics 243(24) From River to Watershed 244(8) Modern Watershed Consciousness: Mary Austin to the Present 252(15) Notes 267(74) Acknowledgments 341(4) Index 345