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With the term “queer environmentality,” azzarello points towards a queer sensibility in the history of environmental literature to balance the dominant narrative that reading environmental literature is tantamount to witnessing a spectacular dramatization of heterosexual teleology. azzarello’s study treats four key figures in the American literary tradition: Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Djuna Barnes. Each of these writers problematizes conventional notions of the strange matrix between the human, the natural, and the sexual. They brilliantly demonstrate the ways in which the queer project and the environmental project are always connected or, put another way, show that questions and politics of human sexuality are always entwined with those associated with the other-than-human world.  \nThis page has been left blank intentionally  \nDownloaded by [University of Florida] at 12:20 21 February 2017  \nDownloaded by [University of Florida] at 12:20 21 February 2017  \nQueer environmentality  \necology, evolution, and Sexuality in american literature  \nRoBERT AzzAREllo Southern University at New Orleans, USA  \nDownloaded by [University of Florida] at 12:20 21 February 2017  \nFirst published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing  \nPublished 2016 by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN  \n711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Robert Azzarello 2012  \nRobert Azzarello has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nNotice:  \nProduct or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nAzzarello, Robert.  \nQueer environmentality: ecology, evolution, and sexuality in American literature.  \n1. Environmental literature – United States – History and criticism. 2. Sex in literature.  \n3. Homosexuality and literature – United States – History – 19th century. 4. Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862 – Criticism and interpretation. 5. Melville, Herman, 1819–1891  \n–  \nCriticism and interpretation. 6. Cather, Willa, 1873–1947 – Criticism and interpretation.  \n7. Barnes, Djuna – Criticism and interpretation.  \nI. Title  \n810.9’3553-dc23  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nAzzarello, Robert.  \nQueer environmentality: ecology, evolution, and sexuality in American literature / by Robert Azzarello.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-1-4094-2664-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)  \n1. American literature—History and criticism. 2. Environmentalism in literature.  \n3. Homosexuality in literature. 4. Ecology in literature. I. Title.  \nPS169.E25A98 2012  \n810.9’36—dc23  \n2011043618  \nISBN: 9781409426646 (hbk)  \nISBN: 9781315603179 (ebk)  \nContents  \nDownloaded by [University of Florida] at 12:20 21 Fe","cbCain3uUut6Dhs6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain3uUut6Dhs6","pdf",1286154,11,168,"English","# Contents\n## Nature and Its Discontents\n## Thoreau’s Queer Environmentality\n## Melville’s Apples of Sodom\n## Cather’s Onto-Theology of Oikos\n## Barnes’s Queerly Nietzschean Nature\n## The Philosophical Upshot\n## Bibliography\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What does “queer environmentality” mean in this study?\",\"answer\":\"It points to a queer sensibility within the history of environmental literature, aiming to rebalance dominant narratives about heterosexual teleology. 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