The Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-
edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship …

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 …

Practical Ecocriticismis the first book to ground environmental literature firmly in the life
sciences, particularly evolutionary biology, and to attempt to bridge the ever-widening gulf …

In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and
environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages …

Inspired by a range of ecological movements, ecocriticism explores the ways in which we
imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of …

The contemporary environmental crisis asks fundamental questions about culture. This first
book draws together the rich variety of environmentalist positions, from ecofeminism to deep …

Representations of nature in literature, as Lawrence Buell has recently pointed out, have
typically been dealt with and understood in the twentieth century not as images of literal or …

This volume gathers nineteen of the most representative and defining essays from the
journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment over the course of its …

The Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of
environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. The …

Ecocriticism, or" green" criticism, is one of the most recent interdisciplinary fields to have
emerged in literary and cultural studies. Ecocriticism analyzes the role that the natural …