ABSTRACT
In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality of emerging critical discourses, such as new materialism, ecofeminism, critical animal studies, food studies, object-oriented ontology and affect theory. This timely volume looks back at the early decades of the Anthropocene to query the agency of visual culture to critique, create and maintain more resilient and biologically diverse local and global ecologies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|64 pages
Political Ecologies and the Movement of Things
chapter 2|16 pages
“A Demonstration to the World”
chapter 3|17 pages
Crafting “Nature”
chapter 4|12 pages
An Ecolonial Reassessment of the Indian Craze
part 2|55 pages
Material Ecologies
chapter 8|14 pages
Picturing Industrial Landscapes
chapter 9|18 pages
Ruskin’s Storm-Cloud and Tyndall’s Blue Sky
part 3|35 pages
Depletion and Conservation of Natural Resources
chapter 10|10 pages
Gilded Age Dining
chapter 12|9 pages
“A Better Acquaintanceship with Our Fellows of the Wild”
part 4|51 pages
Natural Histories/Animal Agencies
chapter 16|12 pages
Visualizations of “Nature”
part 5|34 pages
Agriculture and Resource Husbandry