This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English
Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and …

In the 1970s the relationship between literature and the environment emerged as a topic of
serious and widespread interest among writers and scholars. The ideas, debates, and texts …

American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European
Americans, often ignoring other groups. In Black on Earth, Kimberly Ruffin expands the …

This work covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. Gilcrest
poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry …

Green Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically
comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology …

This article considers the theory and practice of ecological literary criticism, or “ecocriticism,”
in British Romantic studies. Also known as “Romantic ecology” or “green Romanticism,” …

In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent" green"
criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the …

Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists
surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno …

Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded
or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone …

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to
understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes …