Fuel : An Ecocritical History (Paperback)

Introduction i. New York City to Albany ii. Fuel History iii. Defining Fuel iv. Energy Ontology v. The Arc of Fuel Part One: Biomass Fuels 1. Grass: Muscles Powered i. The Country: The Past-ness of the Pastoral ii. The City: Crosstown Traffic iii. In Depth: Black Beauty iv. Borderline Biomass: Peat and Whale Oil 2. Wood: Forests' Fires i. Burning to Survive ii. The Hospitable Blaze iii. In Depth: Jane Austen Part Two: Fossil Fuels 3. King Coal i. Workhouse Workhorse ii. The Big Smoke and Auld Reekie iii. In Depth: Wuthering Heights and How Green Was My Valley iv. Do the Locomotion v. Horizon Gone: Mountaintop Removal Mining 4. Black Gold i. Oil Ontology ii. Gusher Gawkers iii. Road Trip! iv. Oil's Locales v. Pastoral Oilfields: The Suburbs vi. A Note on Natural Gas 5. Interlude: Human Food Part Three: Primary Energy 6. The Elements Move i. Breeze ii. Flow iii. Star iv. Atom Conclusion Bibliography Index