Introduction Sarah Ensor and Susan Scott Parrish; Part I. Environmental Histories: 1. Scenes of human diminishment in early American natural history Christoph Irmscher; 2. Slavery and the anthropocene Paul Outka; 3. (In)conceivable futures: Henry David Thoreau and reproduction's queer ecology Sarah Ensor; 4. Narrating animal extinction from the pleistocene to the anthropocene Timothy Sweet; 5. Pastoral reborn in the anthropocene: Henry David Thoreau to Kyle Powys Whyte Wai Chee Dimock; Part II. Environmental Genres and Media: 6. The heat of modernity: The great gatsby as petrofiction Harilaos Stecopoulos; 7. Children in transit/children in Peril: The contemporary US novel in a time of climate crisis Min Hyoung Song; 8. Meta-critical climate change fiction: Claire Vaye Watkins's gold fame citrus Rick Crownshaw; 9. Junk food for thought: Decolonizing diets in Tommy Pico's poetry Nicole Seymour; 10. Tender woods: Looking for the black outdoors with Dawoud Bey Susan Scott Parrish; Part III. Environmental Spaces, Environmental Methods: 11. Urban narrative and the futures of biodiversity Ursula Heise; 12. Japanese American incarceration and the turn to earth: Looking for a man named Komako in bad day at black rock Mika Kennedy; 13. Leisure over labor: Latino outdoors and the production of a Latinx outdoor recreation identity Sarah D. Wald; 14. Sanctuary: literature and the colonial politics of protection Matt Hooley; 15. The queer restoration poetics of Audre Lorde Angela Hume.