List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene
Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino

Part 1. Theoretical Foundations
1. “what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this / minute atmosphere”: Juliana Spahr and Anthropocene Anxiety
Nicole M. Merola
2. From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene
Alexa Weik von Mossner
3. A New Gentleness: Affective Ficto-Regionality
Neil Campbell

Part 2. Affective Attachments: Land, Bodies, Justice
4. Feeling the Fires of Climate Change: Land Affect in Canada’s Tar Sands
Jobb Arnold
5. Wendell Berry and the Affective Turn
William Major
6. A Hunger for Words: Food Affects and Embodied Ideology
Tom Hertweck
7. Uncanny Homesickness and War: Loss of Affect, Loss of Place, and Reworlding in Redeployment
Ryan Hediger

Part 3. Animality: Feeling Species and Boundaries
8. Desiring Species with Darwin and Freud
Robert Azzarello
9. Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene
Brian Deyo
10. Futurity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild
Allyse Knox-Russell

Part 4. Environmentalist Killjoys: Politics and Pedagogy
11. The Queerness of Environmental Affect
Nicole Seymour
12. Feeling Let Down: Affect, Environmentalism, and the Power of Negative Thinking
Lisa Ottum
13. Feeling Depleted: Ecocinema and the Atmospherics of Affect
Graig Uhlin
14. Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula
Sarah Jaquette Ray
List of Contributors
Index