Contents

New Directions in Ecocriticism
Fall 2010

New Directions in Ecocriticism

Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Introduction: The Shape of Ecocriticism to Come
    Michael Verderame
  3. “Our frozen age” and “Our destroying age”: The Great Frost of 1608 and The Midland Revolt
    Matthew O'Brien
  4. “Birding in Men’s Purses”: Consumption Networks in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair
    Elizabeth Tavares
  5. Some Fatal Influence: Narrative and Etiology in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn
    Patrick Fadely
  6. “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
  7. “Wastes of the city”: Urban Disease and Diseased Urbanization in Edward Bello’s El roto
    Lisa Burner
  8. Entropy, Ecofeminism, and Waste Management in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School
    Maggie Kainulainen
  9. Complex Systems and Global Catastrophe: Networks in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten
    Shawn Ballard