Environmental criticism for the twenty-first century /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: LeMenager, Stephanie, 1968-, Shewry, Teresa, Hiltner, Ken
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • The mesh / Timothy Morton
  • Posthuman/postnatural: ecocriticism and the sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Paul Outka
  • Revisiting the virtuoso: natural history collectors and their passionate engagement with nature / Beth Fowkes Tobin
  • Chimerical figurations at the monstrous edges of species / Jill H. Casid
  • The city refigured: environmental vision in a transgenic age / Allison Carruth
  • Ecopoetics and the origins of English literature / Alfred K. Siewers
  • Amerindian Eden: the divine weekes of Du Bartas / Edward M. Test
  • Erasure by U.S. legislation: Ruiz de Burton's nineteenth-century novels and the lost archive of Mexican American environmental knowledge / Priscilla Solis Ybarra
  • Shifting the center: a tradition of environmental literacy discourse from Africa / Byron Caminero-Santangelo
  • Ecomelancholia: slavery, war, and black ecological imaginings / Jennifer C. James
  • Home again: peak oil, climate change, and the aesthetics of transition / Michael G. Ziser
  • Reclaiming Nimby: nuclear waste, Jim Day, and the rhetoric of local resistance / Cheryll Glotfelty
  • Imagining a Chinese eco-city / Julie Sze and Yi Zhou
  • "No debt outstanding": the postcolonial politics of local food / Susie O'Brien
  • Pathways to the sea: involvement and the commons in works by Ralph Hotere, Cilla McQueen, Hone Tuwhare, and Ian Wedde / Teresa Shewry
  • Afterword, an interview with Elaine Scarry.