French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century

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This is an open access book available on www.peterlang.com and www.oapen.org. All content published can be shared under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Developing French Ecocriticism (Daniel A. Finch-Race / Stephanie Posthumus) Part I: Early Modern Economies and Ecologies Through a Glass Darkly: Dominion and the French Wars of Religion (Jeff Persels) The Vanity of Ecology: Expenditure in Montaigne’s Vision of the New World (Pauline Goul) Part II: Romanticism and Nature; Naturalism and Animality Victor Hugo and the Politics of Ecopoetics (Karen F. Quandt) Fauves in the Faubourg: Animal Aesthetics in Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (Claire Nettleton) Part III: Nineteenth-Century Ecopoetics Ecopoetic Adventures in Rimbaud’s ‘Sensation’ and ‘Ma Bohème’ (Daniel A. Finch-Race) Towards an Ecopoetics of French Free Verse: Marie Krysinska’s Rythmes pittoresques (David E. Evans) Part IV: Twentieth-Century Ecological Thought Marguerite Yourcenar’s Ecological Thinking: Wilderness, Place-Connectedness, Biocentrism, and an Ethic of Care (Teófilo Sanz) Michel Serres: From Restricted to General Ecology (Christopher Watkin) Part V: Millennial Bodies, Origins and Becoming-Milieu Ecoerotica in Stéphane Audeguy’s La Théorie des nuages (Jonathan Krell) The Individual as Environment: Watching Jean-Claude Rousseau’s La Vallée close with Lucretius and Simondon (Nikolaj Lübecker) Part VI: Twenty-First-Century Natural Limits Writing (on) Environmental Catastrophes: The End of the World in Éric Chevillard’s Sans l’orang-outan and Michel Houellebecq’s La Possibilité d’une île (Anaïs Boulard) On the Meaning of Being Alone with Nature: Sylvain Tesson’s Ecocritical Sincerity and Ecopoetic Sensuality in Dans les forêts de Sibérie (Hannes De Vriese) Part VII: Horizons and Prospects Engaging with Cultural Differences: The Strange Case of French écocritique (Stephanie Posthumus) Notes on Contributors Index