THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES ThisCompanionoffersacomprehensiveandaccessibleintroduction totheenvironmentalhumanities,aninterdisciplinarymovementthat responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, fromenvironmentalracismandglobalmigrationtoresourceimpov erishmentandtheimportanceofthenonhumanworld.Itaddresses the twenty first century recognition of an environmental crisis its antecedents,currentforms,andfuturetrajectories aswellaspossible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods,fields,andgloballocations,butitisorganizedtogivereaders aworkingcontextforthefoundationaldebates.Eachchapterexam inesakeytopicorthemeinEnvironmentalHumanities,showswhy that topic emerged as a category of study, explores the different approaches to the topic, suggests future avenues of inquiry, and considersthetopic’sglobalimplications,especiallythosethatinvolve environmentaljusticeissues. jeffrey jerome cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University,andformercopresidentoftheAssociationfortheStudyof Literature and the Environment. His book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhumanreceivedthe2017RenéWellekPrizeincomparativeliterature fromtheAmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociation.Incollaboration withLindyElkinsTanton,hecowrotethebookEarthandwithJulian Yates,heiscowritingNoah’sArkive:TowardsanEcologyofRefuge. stephanie foote istheJacksonandNicholsChairofEnglishat West Virginia University. She is the author of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2001), The Parvenu’s Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism(2014),andtheeditor,withElizabethMazzolini,ofHistories oftheDustheap:Waste,MaterialCultures,SocialJustice(2012).Sheis the cofounder and coeditor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. She is currently working on The Art of Waste,aprojectaboutwasteandliterature. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES edited by JEFFREY JEROME COHEN ArizonaStateUniversity STEPHANIE FOOTE WestVirginiaUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314 321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi 110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05 06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781316510681 doi:10.1017/9781009039369 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJBooksLimited,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. 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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES ThisCompanionoffersacomprehensiveandaccessibleintroduction totheenvironmentalhumanities,aninterdisciplinarymovementthat responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, fromenvironmentalracismandglobalmigrationtoresourceimpov erishmentandtheimportanceofthenonhumanworld.Itaddresses the twenty first century recognition of an environmental crisis its antecedents,currentforms,andfuturetrajectories aswellaspossible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods,fields,andgloballocations,butitisorganizedtogivereaders aworkingcontextforthefoundationaldebates.Eachchapterexam inesakeytopicorthemeinEnvironmentalHumanities,showswhy that topic emerged as a category of study, explores the different approaches to the topic, suggests future avenues of inquiry, and considersthetopic’sglobalimplications,especiallythosethatinvolve environmentaljusticeissues. jeffrey jerome cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University,andformercopresidentoftheAssociationfortheStudyof Literature and the Environment. His book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhumanreceivedthe2017RenéWellekPrizeincomparativeliterature fromtheAmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociation.Incollaboration withLindyElkinsTanton,hecowrotethebookEarthandwithJulian Yates,heiscowritingNoah’sArkive:TowardsanEcologyofRefuge. stephanie foote istheJacksonandNicholsChairofEnglishat West Virginia University. She is the author of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2001), The Parvenu’s Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism(2014),andtheeditor,withElizabethMazzolini,ofHistories oftheDustheap:Waste,MaterialCultures,SocialJustice(2012).Sheis the cofounder and coeditor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. She is currently working on The Art of Waste,aprojectaboutwasteandliterature. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES edited by JEFFREY JEROME COHEN ArizonaStateUniversity STEPHANIE FOOTE WestVirginiaUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314 321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi 110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05 06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781316510681 doi:10.1017/9781009039369 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJBooksLimited,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Cohen,JeffreyJerome,author.|Foote,Stephanie,author. title:TheCambridgecompaniontoenvironmentalhumanities/EditedbyJeffreyCohen, GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,WashingtonDC,StephanieFoote,WestVirginiaUniversity. description:Cambridge;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,2021.|Series: Cambridgecompanionstoliterature|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. identifiers:lccn2021013906(print)|lccn2021013907(ebook)|isbn9781316510681 (hardback)|isbn9781009039369(ebook) subjects:lcsh:Humanecologyandthehumanities.|Environmentalsciences Philosophy.| Environmentaljustice.|Nature(Aesthetics)|BISAC:LITERARYCRITICISM/Semiotics& Theory classification:lccgf22 .c362021(print)|lccgf22(ebook)|ddc304.2 dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021013906 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021013907 isbn978-1-316-51068-1Hardback isbn978-1-009-01776-3Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES ThisCompanionoffersacomprehensiveandaccessibleintroduction totheenvironmentalhumanities,aninterdisciplinarymovementthat responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, fromenvironmentalracismandglobalmigrationtoresourceimpov erishmentandtheimportanceofthenonhumanworld.Itaddresses the twenty first century recognition of an environmental crisis its antecedents,currentforms,andfuturetrajectories aswellaspossible responses to it. This books foregrounds scholarship from different periods,fields,andgloballocations,butitisorganizedtogivereaders aworkingcontextforthefoundationaldebates.Eachchapterexam inesakeytopicorthemeinEnvironmentalHumanities,showswhy that topic emerged as a category of study, explores the different approaches to the topic, suggests future avenues of inquiry, and considersthetopic’sglobalimplications,especiallythosethatinvolve environmentaljusticeissues. jeffrey jerome cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University,andformercopresidentoftheAssociationfortheStudyof Literature and the Environment. His book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhumanreceivedthe2017RenéWellekPrizeincomparativeliterature fromtheAmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociation.Incollaboration withLindyElkinsTanton,hecowrotethebookEarthandwithJulian Yates,heiscowritingNoah’sArkive:TowardsanEcologyofRefuge. stephanie foote istheJacksonandNicholsChairofEnglishat West Virginia University. She is the author of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2001), The Parvenu’s Plot: Gender, Culture, and Class in the Age of Realism(2014),andtheeditor,withElizabethMazzolini,ofHistories oftheDustheap:Waste,MaterialCultures,SocialJustice(2012).Sheis the cofounder and coeditor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. She is currently working on The Art of Waste,aprojectaboutwasteandliterature.