How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States

by Dana Luciano

In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and other works, Luciano reveals how geology catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world. She shows that understanding the earth's history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478020962
• ISBN13: 9781478020967
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"