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 …

"... a challenging and insightful collection of essays. Each contribution enlarges the reader's
understanding of Thoreau and the" green" movement in US writing. o--PJ Ferlazzo, Choice …

Early environmental writers provided American settlers with an idealistic conception of their
place in the New World, and in the process they mystified our relationship to the land. David …

Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature? He would be a poet who could
impress the winds and streams into his service, to speak for him; who nailed words to their …

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 …

Although much contemporary American Indian literature examines the relationship between
humans and the land, most Native authors do not set their work in the" pristine wilderness" …

Since colonial times, the sense of encountering an unseen, transcendental Presence within
the natural world has been a characteristic motif in American literature and culture. American …

ix script. More recently I have enjoyed the encouragement of my colleagues in the English
Department at Southwest Texas State University and the members of The Live Oak Society …

A Natural History of Nature Writing is a penetrating overview of the origins and development
of a uniquely American literature. Essayist and poet Frank Stewart describes in rich and …

I wish to address two things that might be seen as problems for the criticism of environmental
literature: first, the incredible heterogeneity of that literature, which of course cuts across …