Contents
New Directions in Ecocriticism
Fall 2010
New Directions in Ecocriticism
Contents
Cover Page
Introduction: The Shape of Ecocriticism to Come
Michael Verderame
“Our frozen age” and “Our destroying age”: The Great Frost of 1608 and The Midland Revolt
Matthew O'Brien
“Birding in Men’s Purses”: Consumption Networks in Ben Jonson's
The Alchemist
and
Bartholomew Fair
Elizabeth Tavares
Some Fatal Influence: Narrative and Etiology in Charles Brockden Brown's
Arthur Mervyn
Patrick Fadely
“It’s the End of the World as We Know it, and I Feel Fine”: Historical Antecedents of the Plague in Mary Shelley’s
The Last Man
Jessica Mercado
“Wastes of the city”: Urban Disease and Diseased Urbanization in Edward Bello’s
El roto
Lisa Burner
Entropy, Ecofeminism, and Waste Management in Kathy Acker's
Blood and Guts in High School
Maggie Kainulainen
Complex Systems and Global Catastrophe: Networks in David Mitchell’s
Ghostwritten
Shawn Ballard