The environmental tradition in English literature
By: edited by John Parham.
Contributors: Parham, John.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Nature in literature; Conservation of natural resources in literature; Environmental protection in literature; Philosophy of nature in literature; Forests and forestry in literature; Environmentalism -- Great Britain; Wilderness areas in literature; Outdoor life in literature; Landscape in literature; Ecology in literature; Ecocriticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The essays assembled in this collection are, by and large, the fruits of two conferences, the 1997 Literature and Natural Environment Conference (University of Wales, Swansea) and the 1998 Culture and Environmentalism Conference (Bath Spa University College)"--P. [xi].
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part 1 Theoretical Approaches; title: 1 After 'Organic Community': Ecocriticism, Nature, and; title: Human Nature; title: Martin Ryle; title: 2 Beyond 2000: Raymond Williams and the Ecocritic's Task; title: Dominic Head; title: 3 Ecofeminism in Literary Studies; title: Naomi Guttman; title: 4 Towards a Post-Pastoral View of British Poetry; title: Terry Gifford; title: 5 Postmoder Ecocriticism in the Science Fiction Novel:; title: J.G. Ballard and Ken Kesey; title: Bennett Huffman; title: 6 Cosmos as Metaphor: Eco-spiritual Poetics; title: Paul Davies; title: 7 Narratives of Resignation: Environmentalism in Recent Fiction; title: Richard Kerridge; title: 8 Ecotopian Fiction and the Sustainable Society; title: Lisa Garforth; title: Part 2 Historical Approaches; title: 9 Making the Rocks Disappear: Refocusing Chaucer's Knight's; title: and Franklin's Tales; title: Gillian Rudd; title: 10 The Commodious Ark: Nature's Voice in Early Modem Poetry; title: Diane McColley; title: 11 'Founded on the Affections': A Romantic Ecology; title: Ralph Pite; title: 12 Was there a Victorian Ecology?; title: John Parham; title: 13 Letting in the Sky: An Ecofeminist Reading of Virginia Woolf s; title: Short Fiction; title: Charlotte Zoe Walker; title: 14 Reversing the Fall: The Sense of Place in D.H. Lawrence; title: Gavin Murray; title: 15 Twentieth-Century Rural Poets of Britain and Ireland:; title: Ecological Voices from the Geographical and Cultural Margins; title: Andy Jurgis; title: Ecocriticism: An Annotated Bibliography; title: Jo Rawlinson; title: Index.