Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Natural and the Unnatural: History and Anamorphosis in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall

2. Black and White Geographies: Seeing and Writing the New World in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

3. Imagi(ni)ng the Arctic: Historical Narrative and Visual Poetics in Ian McGuire’s The North Water

4. Liquid Identities: Water and Storytelling in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna

5. A Heart Open to Nature: Experience, Memory, and Time in Paul Harding’s Tinkers and Enon

6. Ethics and Embodiment: Realism, Ideas, and Animal Rights in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello

7. A Rhetoric of Climate Change: Comedy, Character, and Progression in Ian McEwan’s Solar

8. Living on Multiple Planes: Daily Life, Global Crisis, and Narrative Fragmentation in Jenny Offill’s Weather

Conclusion

References

Index