Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature

Introduction: Moving Nature

PART ONE: NATURE'S AGENCIES

1. The Literary Seismograph: Earthquakes in European Literature and Thought

2. Fear of the Forest: Cultural Xylophobia from Pliny to Proulx

3. Shakespeare's Vital Parts: Animal, Vegetable, and Meteorological Actors on the Shakespearean Stage

PART TWO: ANIMAL AFFECTS

4. Baleful Light: Literary Encounters with the Gaze of Animals

5. Taxonomy and Wonder: Old World Bestiaries and New World Marvels

6. The Lower Deep: Fathoming the Abyss in Moby-Dick

Epilogue

Index

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ecocriticism,;Romanticism;new materialism;earthquakes;storms;William Shakespeare;Aphra Behn;Herman Melville;Moby-Dick;Annie Proulx;forests;oceans;Kant;Dante;Jose Saramago;von Kleist;Leibniz;Voltaire;Virgil;Ovid;Ruskin;J.R.R. Tolkien;Edgar Allen Poe;Patrick Sueskind;Jacques Derrida;Jacques Lacan;Keith Ridgway;Descartes;animal studies;magic realism;Gabriel Garcia Marquez;Yann Martel;Columbus;Pigafetta;colonialism