Writing the environment in nineteenth century American literature : the ecological awareness of early scribes of nature Introduction: toward an environmental ethos Steven Petersheim and Madison P. Jones IV The Faces of Nature: The Sublime the Romantic and the Real. Navigating the Interior: Edgar Huntly and the Mapping of Early America Christopher Sloman John D. Godman and the Creation of the Ramble Scott Honeycutt Celebrating the Great Round Solid Self of Earth in Hawthornes Short Fiction Steven Petersheim Learning to Woo Meaning from Apparent Chaos:The Wild Form of Summer on the Lakes Jeffrey Bilbro Shadow and Liminal Space in Typee and Walden Madison P. Jones IV Always Already Sexual: New Materialism in Whitmans Leaves of Grass Stephanie Peebles Tavera The Swamps of Emily Dickinson Cecily Parks The Values of Nature: Caring for the Environment. An Ecological Manifest Destiny: Nature and Nation in Freneaus Poetry Benjamin Darrell Crawford John James Audubon: From Proto Ecological Sensibility to Conservation Ethics Li Ru Lu Recovering John Muirs Wild Gardens Carrie Duke Afterword Christoph Irmscher