Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism)
Contributors: Karla Armbruster (Editor); Kathleen R. Wallace (Editor)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780813920146
Subjects: Literary studies: general; The Environment; History and criticism; English literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; Nature; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; American literature; General; Nature in literature
First sentence: In the introduction to The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, Cheryll Glotfelty points to 1993 as the year ecocriticism, which she defines as "the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment" (xviii), emerged as a recognizable critical school.