Ecocriticism: the essential reader

Table of Contents:

Part 1: First-Wave Ecocriticism
1. Shakespeare’s American Fable
2. Nature As Female
3. Country and City
4. The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis
5. The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects
6. Introduction: Ecology and Man—A Viewpoint
7. The Etiquette of Freedom
8. The Economy of Nature
9. Representing the Environment
10. The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature
11. Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis

Part 2: Second-Wave Ecocriticism
12. The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics & Pedagogy
13. Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory
14. Race, Class, and the Politics of Place
15. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ecocriticism
17. Introduction
18. Environmentalism and Postcolonialism
19. Natural Universal and the Global Scale
20. Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology!
21. Imagining Ecology Without Nature
22. The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture and Literature in America
23. What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the non-Human
24. Ecopolitics/ Ecocriticism
25. Reading The Otherworld Environmentally
26. Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor
27. Ecology, Epistemology, and Empiricism
28. The Climate of History: Four Theses
29. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
30. Writing After Nature

Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting contemporary trends, including environmental justice, aesthetics and philosophy, and globalization.

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