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Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities

Under the Sign of Nature is devoted to the publication of high-quality works of critical inquiry and narrative scholarship in environmental humanities and related areas. The series encompasses scholarly monographs, trade books, anthologies, readers, and selected paperback reprints of classic works. Innovative interdisciplinary projects characterized by excellent writing and relevance to multiple audiences are particularly encouraged, as is international work.

Series editors: Sarah Dimick, Alison Glassie, and Jesse Oak Taylor
UVA Editor(s): Angie Hogan

Titles in this Series

Water Logics

Water Logics

Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities

Edited by yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

Peak Experiences

Peak Experiences

Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need

Ian Marshall

Irish Ecomedia

Irish Ecomedia

Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland

Katherine M. Huber

The Ecological Plot

The Ecological Plot

How Stories Gave Rise to a Science

John MacNeill Miller

Cli-Fi and Class

Cli-Fi and Class

Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction

Edited by Debra J. Rosenthal and Jason de Lara Molesky

Thoreau’s Botany

Thoreau’s Botany

Thinking and Writing with Plants

James Perrin Warren

Climate Change and Original Sin

Climate Change and Original Sin

The Moral Ecology of John Milton's Poetry

Katherine Cox

The Queerness of Water

The Queerness of Water

Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century

Jeremy Chow

Toxic Matters

Toxic Matters

Narrating Italy’s Dioxin

Monica Seger

Unsettling Nature

Unsettling Nature

Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination

Taylor Eggan

Basura

Basura

Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain

Samuel Amago

Narrating the Mesh

Narrating the Mesh

Form and Story in the Anthropocene

Marco Caracciolo

Magnificent Decay

Magnificent Decay

Melville and Ecology

Tom Nurmi

Eden's Endemics

Eden's Endemics

Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond

Elizabeth Callaway

New Woman Ecologies

New Woman Ecologies

From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond

Alicia Carroll

Of Land, Bones, and Money

Of Land, Bones, and Money

Toward a South African Ecopoetics

Emily McGiffin

Novel Cultivations

Novel Cultivations

Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century

Elizabeth Hope Chang

Evergreen Ash

Evergreen Ash

Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature

Christopher Abram

Italy and the Environmental Humanities

Italy and the Environmental Humanities

Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies

Edited by Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past

Shakespeare's Ocean

Shakespeare's Ocean

An Ecocritical Exploration

Dan Brayton

Recomposing Ecopoetics

Recomposing Ecopoetics

North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene

Lynn Keller

Building Natures

Building Natures

Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning

Julia Daniel

"The Best Read Naturalist"

"The Best Read Naturalist"

Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by Michael P. Branch and Clinton Mohs

The Sky of Our Manufacture

The Sky of Our Manufacture

The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf

Jesse Oak Taylor

Ossianic Unconformities

Ossianic Unconformities

Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age

Eric Gidal

Anthropocene Fictions

Anthropocene Fictions

The Novel in a Time of Climate Change

Adam Trexler

Dancing with Disaster

Dancing with Disaster

Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times

Kate Rigby

Different Shades of Green

Different Shades of Green

African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology

Byron Caminero-Santangelo

Wild Dog Dreaming

Wild Dog Dreaming

Love and Extinction

Deborah Bird Rose

Reclaiming Nostalgia

Reclaiming Nostalgia

Longing for Nature in American Literature

Jennifer K. Ladino

Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa

Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa

From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh

John Elder

William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship

William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship

The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Scott Hess

Ecocritical Theory

Ecocritical Theory

New European Approaches

Edited by Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby

Postcolonial Green

Postcolonial Green

Environmental Politics and World Narratives

Edited by Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt

Framing the World

Framing the World

Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film

Edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi

Out of the Shadow

Out of the Shadow

Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land

Rinda West

Daybooks of Discovery

Daybooks of Discovery

Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770–1870

Mary Ellen Bellanca

Westernness

Westernness

A Meditation

Alan Williamson

Topographies of the Sacred

Topographies of the Sacred

The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism

Kate Rigby

Eco-Man

Eco-Man

New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature

Mark Allister, ed.

Mary Austin's Regionalism

Mary Austin's Regionalism

Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography

Heike Schaefer

Lines on the Land

Lines on the Land

Writers, Art, and the National Parks

Scott Herring

Practical Ecocriticism

Practical Ecocriticism

Literature, Biology, and the Environment

Glen A. Love

Visions of the Land

Visions of the Land

Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology

Michael A. Bryson

Going by Contraries

Going by Contraries

Robert Frost's Conflict with Science

Robert Bernard Hass

The Best and Worst Country in the World

The Best and Worst Country in the World

Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape

Stephen Adams

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow

Nature Writing and Autobiography

Mark Allister

Beyond Nature Writing

Beyond Nature Writing

Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism

Karla M. Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds.

The Nature Fakers

The Nature Fakers

Wildlife, Science, and Sentiment

Ralph H. Lutts

Back from the Far Field

Back from the Far Field

American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century

Bernard W. Quetchenbach

Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature

Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature

Patrick D. Murphy

Story Line

Story Line

Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail

Ian Marshall