Disability and the Environment in American Literature

Introduction: The Ecosomatic Paradigm in American Literature
Matthew J. C. Cella

Part I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Fiction

1. Claiming the Land: Fictions of Wholeness in Hope Leslie
Amanda Stuckey

2.Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia?: Cross-Cultural Possibilities Melville's Typee
Elizabeth S. Callaway

3.Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited: Disability and Environmental Ethics in O Pioneers!
Matthew J. C. Cella

Part II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture

4. Frank Miller's Daredevil: Blindness, the Urban Environment, and the Social Model of Disability
James J. Donahue

5. Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult Literature
Phoebe Chen

6. The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's Books
Katherine Lashley

Part III: Ecosomatic Readings of American Places

7. "The whole imprisoning wasteland beyond": Forces of Nature, Ableism, and Suburban Dis-ease in Midcentury Literature
Jill E. Anderson

8. A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt Narratives
Barbara George