The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology
Environmental ideas have been shaping politics and writing for many years  now, and the literary critics are catching on. This wide-ranging anthology followsWallace Stegner's  notion that an environmentally based criticism should be "large and loose and  suggestive and open," and it includes work from many fields, from historianLynn White's landmark  1962 essay "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis" to literary  scholarMichael  McDowell's recent article "The Bakhtinian Road to Ecological  Insight." Fortified by critical notes and reading lists, this collection is useful to  students seeking a broad introduction to literary studies of environmental writing.