Table of Contents Richard J. Schneider, Introduction Dark Nature and the American Canon 1.Gina Claywell, 'Famine is a Frightful Monster': Constructing Nature in Colonial Road Trips by Sarah Kemble Knight and William Byrd II 2.Elizabeth Kubek, 'Passage into New Forms': The Negative Ecologies of Charles Brockden Brown 3.Mark Henderson, Dutchmen on the Brink: The Ghost Ship as Avatar of Dark (American) Nature in Poe's 'MS. Found in a Bottle.' 4.Jesse Curran, Thoreau's Week and the Work of the Eco-lament 5.Frederico Bellini, The Gnostic Dark Side of Nature in Herman Melville and Cormac McCarthy: Carrying the Fire out of Arcadia 6.Jennifer Schell, Fiendish Fumaroles and Malevolent Mud Pots: The EcoGothic Aspects of Owen Wister's Yellowstone Stories 7.Monika M. Elbert, Frontiersmen, Robber Barons, Architects, and the Darkening Aesthetics of Nature in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady Dark Nature and New Voices 8.Richard J. Schneider, The Dark Side of Two Nature Writing Genres: Nature Noir and Wisconsin Death Trip 9. Sarah Daw, The 'dark ecology' of the Bomb: Writing the Nuclear as a part of 'Nature' in Cold War American Literature 10. T. Mera Moore Lafferty, The Poetry of Adele Ne Jame: Dark Nature, Cosmic Justice, and the Communion of Paradoxology 11. Rachel Paparone, Anti-pastoral Imagery and the Search for Cajun Identity 12. Dana Prodoehl, (Dark) Nature and Masculinity: The Anti-Pastoralism of Benjamin Percy's The Wilding 13. Matthew Masucci, Hyperobjects, Plant Entelechy, and the Horror of Eco-Colonization in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy 14. Isabel Galleymore, 'what's the world but shine//and seem': 'Radical Kitsch' and Mark Doty's Environmental Poetics Dark Nature and the Media 15. Anette Vandsoe, Listening to the Dark Side of Nature 16. Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann, Eco-Horror Cinematic Techniques in Television Nature Documentaries: Monsters Inside Me and the Dark Side of Nature 17. David LaRocca, Hunger in the Heart of Nature: Werner Herzog's Anti-Sentimental Dispatches from the American Wilderness (Reflections on Grizzly Man)