Intro; Contents; Chapter 1: Landscapes of Revolution; Literature and Environmental Justice; The Radical Pastoral and the Revolutionary Sublime; The Creature on the Summit; The Woman in the Forest; Landscapes of Revolution in Transatlantic Romanticism; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Black Nature; Hiking While Black; Anti-slavery Gothic, Radical Pastoral, and Revolutionary Sublime in Slave Narratives; Frederick Douglass, Nature, and Abolition; The Heroic Slave; Douglass and Free Soil; Landscapes of Revolution in My Bondage and My Freedom; Race and Labor in My Bondage and My Freedom

A Socio-Environmental Theory of SlaveryLand and Black Freedom; Bibliography; Chapter 3: The Native Wilderness; Landscapes of Indigenous Environmentalism; George Copway/Kahgegagahbowh and Identity as Performance; Authorial Identity in Copway's Life, History, and Travels; The Native Wilderness Topos in The Life, History, and Travels; Alcohol, Methodism, and the Slow Violence of Colonialism; William Apess, Racism, and Indigenous Identity; The "Deep Brown Wilderness" of A Son of the Forest; The Politics of Methodism and Republicanism in A Son of the Forest; Bibliography; Chapter 4: The Green City

Intersectional Feminism and the Public EnvironmentMary Wollstonecraft, Education, and the Body; Environmental Feminism in The History of the Condition of Women; The Green City in Letters from New-York; Bibliography; Chapter 5: The Commons; George Perkins Marsh and Liberal Environmentalism; John Clare, Henry Thoreau, and Walking the Commons; Thoreau's Materialism and Environmental Possibilism; Bibliography; Afterword; Bibliography; Index