Gendered Ecologies

Dewey W. Hall is Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. He is the author of Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists: An Ecocritical Study, 1789–1912 (Routledge, 2014), featuring a discussion about literary origins behind the National Parks in America and National Trust in England. The work for the study was supported through a short-term fellowship at The Huntington Library. His second book Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies (Lexington, 2016) examines science-based discourse in nineteenth-century literature and implications for contemporary culture. His third book Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice (Lexington, 2017) is an interdisciplinary edition, delving into the significance of place as represented by Victorian-era writers concerned about their environs. He has published in ELH, European Romantic Review, and The Coleridge Bulletin. He also belongs to an interdisciplinary research program, featuring Literature and Arts, as part of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. Jillmarie Murphy is a Professor of English and Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at Union College, Schenectady, New York. Her research interests and publications employ the psycho-social paradigm of attachment theory, drawing on topics considering gender, race, class, and ethnicity and their relationship to human-to-human, human-to-place, and human-to-animal bonding in literature. She has several publications that engage archival research and provide a lens through which to consider the evolution of literary history. She has published three books: Hawthorne in His Own Time (University of Iowa Press, 2007), Monstrous Kinship: Realism and Attachment Theory in the 19th and Early 20th Century Novel (University of Delaware Press, 2011), and Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: New Materialist Representations (Routledge, 2018). She is also a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature (2008) and Emerson in Context (2014).

‘The essays in Gendered Ecologies explore an array of spaces, such as gardens, medieval towers, and ancient Greece, where readers will find exhumed skulls, chlorinated lime, and Charlotte Brontë’s fern collection, among other entities... With its stirring, theoretically robust, and accessible analyses, this collection also illustrates the value of nineteenth-century women’s writing to posthumanists, New Materialists, and ecocritics.’ Abby L. Goode, Legacy

• ForewordIntroductionBritish Female Voices1: The ‘vast prison’ of the World: Counter-Anthropocenesin Wollstonecraft and Shelley - Lisa Ottum2: Beyond the Bower: The Garden, the Tower, and the Fateof the Embowered Woman - Heather Braun3: A space of ‘unwonted liberty and pleasure’: CharlotteBrontë’s treatment of gardens in the Bildungsromans ofJane Eyre and Lucy Snowe - Louise Willis4: The Place of Objects: The Female Body, Nature, andEntanglement in Jane Eyre and The Mill on the Floss- Dewey W. Hall5: Lady Audley’s Secret and the Manifold Ecologies of MaryElizabeth Braddon - Adrian TaitAmerican Female Voices6: Ecocultural Contact and the Panarchy of Place:Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Margaret Fuller and Panarchy inthe Great Lakes - John K. Kucich7: Beyond the Binary: Susan Fenimore Cooper’s RuralHours and Celia Thaxter’s Among the Isle of Shoals- Jillmarie Murphy8: Ants Become Giants: Laura Ingalls’s PioneeringPerspective in the Little House Books” - Elif Armbruster9: Francis Wright, Lydia Maria Child, and the Greenness ofthe Greeks - Matthew Duques10: Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Chocorua’s Curse’: How SympathyPrefigures Ecology - Elisabeth West