Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond by Lindsay Starkey is a part of the series “Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures,” published by Amsterdam University Press.

In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Alda Balthrop-Lewis, author of Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism.

This article argues for the term “uncanny water” as a conceptual tool for reading contemporary oceanic fictions.