Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

Jeremy Chow is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His scholarship explores the relationships among eighteenth-century literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and gender and sexuality studies.

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Eighteenth Century + Environmental Humanities
Jeremy Chow
Part I: Eighteenth Century + Climate Change
Chapter 1: Towards a Genealogy of Geoengineering: Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice Age
Elliot Patsoura                                                                                                                                                     
Chapter 2: Storm Apostrophe
Annette Hulbert                                                                                             
Chapter 3: “When Stormy Winds Happen”: Divine Providence, Climate Change Discourse, and the Cause of Weather Disasters
Adam W. Sweeting
Part II: Eighteenth Century + New Materialisms                                                      
Chapter 4: Phillis Wheatley Peters’ Niobean Soundscapes
Shelby Johnson                                  
Chapter 5: Syphilis and Natural History: The Ethical Limits of Human Mastery
Mariah Crilley                                                                       
Part III: Eighteenth Century + Blue Humanities
Chapter 6: Shore/Lines: Drawing Environmental Change on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island                                                                       
Claire Campbell                                                                                
Chapter 7: Of Water, Wind, and Storms: The Elemental Regimes of the Buccaneer Journal
Jason Payton
Part IV: Eighteenth Century + Indigeneity and Decoloniality
Chapter 8: “Supporting Sinking Nations”: John Dennis’s Indigenous Women and their Disasters
Matt Duquès
Chapter 9: Imagining Decolonial Futures in William Gilbert’s The Hurricane
Ami Yoon
Part V: Eighteenth Century + Green Utopias
Chapter 10: Slavery and Plantation Stewardship: The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Georgics of James Grainger and Philip Freneau
Christopher Allan Black
Chapter 11: John Thelwell and L.M. Montgomery Write the Green City
Kate Scarth
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index