Axelle Germanaz is a doctoral researcher in American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes is a doctoral researcher in American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
Sarah Marak is a doctoral research in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Heike Paul is chair of American studies and speaker of the DFG Research Training Group 2726 »The Sentimental in Literature, Culture and Politics« at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface 7
Introduction 13
Whaling Wives, Life Writing, and Sentimental Extraction in the 19th Century Pacific 23
Ecologies of Docility and Control: Environmental Fantasy and Extractive Economy at a Maryland Girls Boarding School, 1834-1868 47
The Melancholy of Extraction: Settler Sentimentality in Canada's Ahistorical Era of Economic Reconciliation 65
"Mute Endurance": Precarious Planting and Affective Ecologies in Native American Novels 89
Pains, Planes, and Automobiles: Extractivist Nostalgia in Mad Men 111
Feeling Senti-metal: Frontier Nostalgia, Mining Masculinity & Corporate Landscapes in the U.S. American Reality TV Series Gold Rush 137
Sentimentality, Sacrifice, and Oil: Reckoning with Offshore Extractive Trauma 163
On Some Absent Presences of Nuclear Extractivism: Retrofuturist Aesthetics and Fallout 4 185
"All of That Wealth Underneath": How the Logic of Extraction Blocks Discourses of Sustainability in the U.S. 203
"Lots of Troubling Ideologies": A Conversation with Writer Jennifer Haigh about Region, Extractivism, and Nostalgia 233
"This Is Our Barn": Agrarian Sentimentality and the Fracking Formula in Promised Land 243
A Conversation with Cara Daggett about Affect, Sentimentality, and Extractivism 265
Oil Ancestors: Relating to Petroleum as Kin 281
Contributors 297