Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere,
committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps …

The first critical companion to the works of this darkly comic short story writer and novelist
Understanding TC Boyle is the first book-length study of one of contemporary America's …

Like all projects, this book owes its existence to contributions from my various communities,
beginning with my fellow graduate students at the University of North Carolina at …

Since the late 1980s, a new variety of English-language political fiction has developed–the
green novel. Organized around tropes of crisis and decay, the new green novel gives …

Abstract Ursula K. Heise in 'Ecocriticism and the Transnational Turn in American Studies'
critiques 'the portrayal of multicultural and sometimes transnational nuclear families as the …

My PhD engages with a number of recent works of fiction in order to understand how
American literature has commented on the emergence of a postsuburban environment–that …

This thesis examines how six contemporary novels variously intervene in the current crisis of
climate change. Through close readings of JG Ballard's The Drowned World (1962) and …

This dissertation reads twentieth and twenty-first century US multicultural literatures,
women's literature, and science-fiction film and literature to identify a tradition of literary …

Abstract TC Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain begins by paying homage to John Steinbeck's The
Grapes of Wrath (1939): Boyle's epigraph, quoted from Steinbeck's novel, creates a direct …

This essay analyses how TC Boyle's A Friend of the Earth represents an embodied
character embedded in material and social environments (zoe-life) processing trauma using …