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Original publisher’s paper-covered boards, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: [vi], 432pp., introduction, 20 contributors with illustrations – notes – references, list contributors, table of contents. CONTRIBUTIONS: Bernd Herzogenrath: NatureÂ’s Nation/NationÂ’s Nature: An Introduction. 1. Adrian J. Ivakhiv: Re-Animations: Instinct and Civility after the Ends of ‘ManÂ’ and ‘NatureÂ’. 2. James Kirwan: The PostmodernistÂ’s Journey Into Nature: From Philo of Alexandria to Pocahontas and Back Again, By Way of Jean-François Lyotard. 3. Marco Diani: Democracy and Its Discontent: Tocqueville and Baudrillard on the Nature of ‘America’. 4. Ursula Göricke: Custom Is Our Nature: Cavell and Wittgenstein versus Freud. 5. Bernd Herzogenrath: Looking Forward/Looking Back: Thomas Cole and the Belated Construction of Nature. 6. Lee Rozelle: Oceanic Terrain: Peristaltic and Ecological Sublimity in PoeÂ’s The Journal of Julius Rodman and Isabella BirdÂ’s A LadyÂ’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. 7. Bill Friend: Postmodern Eden: Nature and the City on a Hill in Charles OlsonÂ’s The Maximus Poems. 8. Dave Williams: ‘Back to the Garden’: The Liberation of the Id in the Antinomian Sixties. 9. Asbjørn Gronstadt: PeckinpahÂ’s Walden: The Violent Indictment of ‘Civilization’ in The Wild Bunch. 10. Nicholas Spencer: Inhuman[e] Subjects: Postmodern Theory and Contemporary Animal Liberation Fiction. 11. Michael Angelo Tata: The Pomo Tingle: From Mundanity to Sublimity and Back Again. 12. Laura Barrett & Daniel R. White: The Re-construction of Nature: Postmodern Ecology and the Kissimmee River Restoration Project. 13. Tim Collins: Conversations in the Rust Belt. 14. Michael York: The Nature and Culture Debate in Popular Forms of Emergent Spirituality in America. 15. William Cummings: Modern Primitivism: The Recent History of CivilizationÂ’s Discontents. 16. Roxana Preda: ‘The Angel in the EcosystemÂ’ Revisited: DisneyÂ’s Pocahontas and Postmodern Ethics. 17. Megan C. McShane: The Manifest Disharmony of Ephemeral Culture: Art, Ecology, and Waste Management in American Culture. 18. Claire Lawrence: Wilderness Icons: The Difficulty of Representing the Desert. 19. Natasha Dow schüll: Oasis/Mirage: Fantasies of Nature in Las Vegas. 20. Jennifer Cypher & Eric Higgs: Colonizing the Imagination: DisneyÂ’s Wilderness Lodge. Very fine copy – as new., Volume 15: Critical Studies.