This volume includes theoretically innovative essays focusing on the nonhuman by writers working in the tradition of American literary naturalism from the 1890s to the present day.

Edited by Karin M. Danielsson and Kenneth K. Brandt - Contributions by Paul Baggett; Paul Crumbley; Daniel Dufournaud; Ingemar Haag; Ryan Hediger; Cara Erdheim Kilgallen; Markku Lehtimäki; Patti Luedecke; Francesca Razzi; Stephanie Studzinski; Lisa Tyler;

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: Other Species

Chapter 1. The Outer Animals: Non-Othered Nonhumans in McTeague

Karin M. Danielsson

Chapter 2: Jack London and the Perils of Human Exceptionalism-or Jack London's Call for Species Interdependence

Paul Crumbley

Chapter 3: The Social Contract and Human-Animal Equality in Dreiser's "McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers"

Patti Luedecke

Chapter 4: Extinction, Genocide, and Atomic Anxiety: Storks in Hemingway's Under Kilimanjaro

Lisa Tyler

Section II: Land and Sea

Chapter 5: Environment, Emotion, and the Individual in "The Open Boat"

Rob Welch

Chapter 6: Anthropomorphism Reconsidered: Nature Faking in Jack London's "All Gold Canyon"

Paul Baggett

Chapter 7: "Love" of the Land as Agrilogistic Tragedy in O Pioneers!: Hazards while Embracing Nonhumans

Ryan Hediger

Section III: Cityscapes and Pseudonature

Chapter 8: Wharton's Architectural Imagination in The House of Mirth

Daniel Dufournaud

Chapter 9: Pseudonature in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

Jency Wilson

Chapter 10: Naturalism's Nonhuman Streets: Food and Waste in Ann Petry's Writing

Cara Erdheim Kilgallen

Section IV: Image, Object, Text

Chapter 11: Between Word and Image: Western Landscape and Photographic Rhetoric in Stephen Crane's Prose Writing

Francesca Razzi

Chapter 12: "The Cruel Radiance of What Is": The Reality of Things in James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Markku Lehtimäki

Section V: Last Things

Chapter 13 Trouble with Human-Nonhuman Distinctions in Dreiser, London, Hamilton, and Dick

Kenneth K. Brandt

Chapter 14: Davids and Goliaths: Last Days Reconciliation Between Humans and Nonhumans in Don DeLillo's Zero K and Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos

Ingemar Haag

Chapter 15: Writing What Remains: Naturalism and the Nonhuman after Nature in Sheri S. Tepper's Plague of Angels Trilogy

Stephanie Studzinski

Index

About the Contributors