Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins

In this innovative study, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins , John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living—traffic, garbage, sewage, waste, and pollution—arguing for a new recognition of all forms of human detritus as part of the natural world and thus for a broadening of our understanding of environmental literature.  While much of the discourse surrounding the United States’ idealistic and nostalgic views of itself privileges “clean” living (primarily in