The Cambridge companion to Literature and the Environment / edited by Louise Westling, University of Oregon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westling, Louise Hutchings, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Environmental literature--History and criticism.

Environmental literature.

Ecology in literature.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

The Cambridge Companion to Literature & the Environment

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from leading experts in the field probe a range of issues, including the place of the human within nature, ecofeminism and gender, engagements with European philosophy and the biological sciences, critical animal studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism, and climate change. A chronology of key publications and bibliography provide ample resources for further reading, making The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment an essential guide for students, teachers, and scholars working in this rapidly developing area of study.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction Louise Westling; Part I. Foundations: 1. Pastoral, anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral

Terry Gifford; 2. The green otherworlds of early medieval literature

Alfred K. Siewers; 3. "Mapping by Words": the politics of land in Native American literature

Shari Huhndorf; Part II. Theories: 4. Ecocritical theory: romantic roots and impulses from twentieth-century European thinkers

Axel Goodbody; 5. Nature, post nature

Timothy Clark; 6. Violent affinities: sex, gender, and species in Cereus Blooms at Night

Catriona Sandilands; 7. The lure of the wilderness

Leo Mellor; Part III. Interdisciplinary Engagements: 8. "Tongues I'll hang on every tree": biosemiotics and the Book of Nature

Wendy Wheeler; 9. Sauntering along the border: Thoreau, Nabhan, and food politics

Janet Fiskio; 10. Animal studies, literary animals, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi

Sarah McFarland; Part IV. Major Directions: 11. Environmental justice, cosmopolitics, and climate change

Joni Adamson; 12. Systems and secrecy: postcolonial ecocriticism and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome

Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt; 13. Environmental crises and East Asian literatures: uncertain presents and futures

Karen Thornber; 14. Confronting catastrophe: ecocriticism in a warming world

Kate Rigby; 15. Ecocinema and the wildlife film

Stephen Rust.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107596429

1107596424

9781107702769

1107702763

9781139342728

113934272X