Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Heraclitean fire, Bakhtiniam laughter, and the limits of literary judgement / Peter Quigley
  • Foreword I: The roots of Abbey's social critique / Edward S. Twining
  • Foreword II: Magpie / SueEllen Campbell
  • I'm a humanist: the poetic past in Desert Solitaire / David J. Rothman
  • Who is the Lone Ranger?: Edward Abbey as philosopher / David Rothenberg
  • Nativity, domesticity, and exile in Edward Abbey's One True Home / Tom Lynch
  • Rage against the machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite thought / Paul Lindholdt
  • Edward Abbey's inadvertent Postmodernism: theory, autobiography, and politics / William Chaloupka
  • Abbey as anarchist / Harold Alderman
  • Getting the desert into a book: Nature writing and the problem of representation in a postmodern world / Claire Lawrence
  • Surviving Doom and Gloom: Edward Abbey's desert comedies / Rebecca Raglon
  • Nietzschean themes in the works of Edward Abbey / Steve Norwick
  • Edward Abbey's Cow / Barbara Barney Nelson
  • Edward Abbey and Gender / Paul T. Bryant
  • The life of the author: Emerson, Foucault, and the reading of Edward Abbey's journals / David Copland Morris
  • From the banks of the Illisus to the Arches of Utah: Edward Abbey as noble rhetorician / Bryan L. Moore
  • Biocentrism and Green Existentialism: Edward Abbey's conflicting conceptualizations of nature / Werner Bigell
  • The politics and aesthetics of a hopeful anarchism: Edward Abbey's postmodern Angelic Demonology / Peter Quigley
  • The politics of leisure: industrial tourism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire / James A. Papa, Jr.