Table of Contents:
  • Beyond "Thou shalt not" : an ecocritic reads Deuteronomy / Betsy S. Hilbert
  • Chaucer and the politics of nature / Lisa J. Kiser
  • Milton's environmental epic : creature kinship and the language of Paradise lost / Diane Kelsey McColley
  • Samuel Johnson discovers the arctic : a reading of a "Greenland tale" as Arctic literature / William C. Horne
  • Before nature writing : discourses of colonial American natural history / Michael P. Branch
  • Cultivating desire, tending piety : botanical discourse in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The minister's wooing / Mark T. Hoyer
  • Ecological Hardy / Richard Kerridge
  • The book Laid upon the landscape : Virginia Woolfe and nature / Charlotte ZoĆ« Walker
  • Nature, gender, and community : Mary Wilkins Freeman's ecofiction / Terrell F. Dixon
  • The great rainbowed swamp : history as moral ecology in the poetry of Michael S. Harper / Elizabeth Dodd
  • Anti-pastoralism, Frederick Douglas, and the nature of slavery / Michael Bennett
  • The novels of Toni Morrison : "wild wilderness where there was none" / Kathleen R. Wallace and Karla Armbruster
  • Literary place bashing, test site Nevada / Cheryll Glotfelty
  • Heading off the trail : language, literature, and nature's resistance to narrative / Rebecca Raglon and Marian Scholtmeijer
  • The non-alibi of alien scapes : SF and ecocriticism / Patrick D. Murphy
  • Discomforting creatures : monstrous natures in recent films / Stacy Alaimo
  • Robert Frost, the New England environment, and the discourse of objects / Kent C. Ryden
  • The poetry of experience / John Elder
  • Performing the wild : rethinking wilderness and theater spaces / Adam Sweeting and Thomas C. Crochunis
  • Beyond nature/writing : virtual landscapes online, in print, and in "real life" / H. Lewis Ulman.