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

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