How the earth feels : geological fantasy in the nineteenth-century United States /

"By the start of the nineteenth century, the impact of the geological sciences and advancements in the field had radically expanded people's perception of the Earth's age. In How the Earth Feels, Dana Luciano maps the emergence of a "geological fantasy," in which increased k...

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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsman: Luciano, Dana (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Serie:ANIMA (Duke University Press)
Länkar:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.9128002
Innehållsförteckning:
  • The "Fashionable Science"
  • "The Infinite Go-Before of the Present": Geological Time, Worldmaking, and Race in the Nineteenth Century
  • Unsettled Ground: Indigenous Prophecy, Geological Fantasy, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
  • Romancing the Trace: Ichnology, Affect, Race
  • Matters of Spirit: Vibrant Materiality and White Femme Geophilia
  • The Natural History of Freedom: Blackness, Geomorphology, Worldmaking
  • Ishmael's Anthropocenes and Others: Geological Fantasy in the Twenty-first Century.