Introduction: The Rhetorical Power of Water

Part One: Imagining Water

``It's a Nice Day for a Canoe Ride'': An Essay on Ecological Issues in Contemporary Culture

From Clouds to Swamps: Cultural Dissolutions in Science and on Screen from Humboldt to Herzog

The Jeweled Net of Water in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers without End

Rescue from Kesey's ``Great Notion'': The Healing Power of Water in Seghers, Frischmuth, and Bachmann

Die Zahmung der grausamen Frau: Seelenlose Wasserkreaturen und ihre Welt des Imaginaren

Of Water Sprites, Drowned Maidens, and Omnipotent Fish: On Some (Mis)Representations of Water in German Postromantic Literary Texts

Water, Exploration, and Liberation in the Essays of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Part Two: Channeling Water

Between Scarcity and Abundance: Water and Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Prussia

The Correction of the Upper Rhine in the Nineteenth Century: Modernizing Society and State by Large-Scale Water Engineering

Remodeling ``Father Rhine'': The Case of Mannheim 1825-1914

Water for Wine and Scenery, Coal and European Unity: Canalization of the Mosel River, 1950-1964

Water Witching: Germans and the Magical Tradition on the Prairie Plains

To Water the Valley: Irrigation, Canals, and the Alexander Commission

Hydraulic Cities: The Urbanization of the Mid-Columbia Plateau

Notes on Contributors