The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism

by Coupe,Laurence

• ISBN13: 9780415204071
• ISBN10: 0415204070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Green Studies Readeris a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology, culture and literature. It offers a complete guide to the growing area of 'ecocriticism' and a wealth of material on green issues from the romantic period to the present. Some important aspects that are covered in depth are romantic ecology and its legacy, Nature/Culture/Gender, and environmental literary history. Included in this collection are extracts from today's leading ecocritics and figures from the past who pioneered a green approach to literature and culture. As a whole theReaderencourages a reassessment of the whole development of criticism and will offer readers a radical prospect for its future.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Foreword	xvii
Jonathan Bate
General Introduction	1	(12)
SECTION ONE GREEN TRADITION
Part I Romantic Ecology and its Legacy
Introduction	13	(3)
Nature as Imagination	16	(1)
William Blake
Primary Laws	17	(4)
William Wordsworth
The Dialectic of Mind and Nature	21	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Writing the Wilderness	23	(3)
Henry David Thoreau
Landscape, Mimesis and Morality	26	(6)
John Ruskin
Art, Socialism and Environment	32	(5)
William Morris
Dorothy Wordsworth: The Spirit of Appearances	37	(4)
Virginia Woolf
John Clare, Love Poet of Nature	41	(3)
John Middleton Murry
William Wordsworth: Poetry, Chemistry, Nature	44	(6)
John F. Danby
The Green Language	50	(16)
Raymond Williams
Part II The Earth, Memory and the Critique of Modernity
Introduction	61	(5)
Studying Nature	66	(4)
Edward Thomas
Remembering Pan	70	(3)
D. H. Lawrence
The Organic Community	73	(4)
F. R. Leavis
Denys Thompson
The Logic of Domination	77	(4)
Theodor W. Adorno
Max Horkheimer
Nature as `Not Yet'	81	(3)
Theodor W. Adorno
Shakespeare's Three Natures	84	(4)
John F. Danby
`... Poetically Man Dwells ...'	88	(8)
Martin Heidegger
Hyper-Technologism, Pollution and Satire	96	(8)
Kenneth Burke
The Machine in the Garden	104	(5)
Leo Marx
Against Single Vision	109	(14)
Theodore Roszak
SECTION TWO GREEN THEORY
Part III Nature/Culture/Gender
Introduction	119	(4)
The Idea of Nature	123	(4)
Kate Soper
Language Goes Two Ways	127	(5)
Gary Snyder
The Environment of Myth	132	(3)
Claude Levi-Strauss
Ecology as Discourse of the Seculded	135	(4)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Naturalized Woman and Feminized Nature	139	(5)
Kate Soper
The Dualism of Primatology	144	(4)
Donna Haraway
Helene Cixous: The Language of Flowers	148	(12)
Verena Andermatt Conley
Part IV Ecocritical Principles
Introduction	157	(3)
Ecocriticism: Containing Multitudes, Practising Doctrine	160	(3)
Scott Slovic
Ecocriticism in Context	163	(4)
William Howarth
From `Red' to `Green'	167	(6)
Jonathan Bate
The Social Construction of Nature	173	(4)
Terry Gifford
Representing the Environment	177	(5)
Lawence Buell
Radical Pastoral?	182	(5)
Greg Garrard
Green Cultural Studies	187	(6)
Jhan Hochman
Ecofeminist Dialogics	193	(5)
Patrick D. Murphy
A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism	198	(14)
Karla Armbruster
SECTION THREE GREEN READING
Part V Environmental Literary History
Introduction	209	(3)
The Forest of Literature	212	(7)
Robert Pogue Harrison
Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, Post-Pastoral	219	(4)
Terry Gifford
Deep Form in Art and Nature	223	(4)
Betty
Theodore Roszak
Culture as Decay: Arnold, Eliot, Snyder	227	(8)
John Elder
Ecocriticism and the Novel	235	(7)
Dominic Head
Ecothrillers: Environmental Cliffhangers	242	(14)
Richard Kerridge
Part VI The Nature of the Text
Introduction	253	(3)
The Ode `To Autumn' as Ecosystem	256	(6)
Jonathan Bate
Thoreau's Ambivalence Toward Mother Nature	262	(5)
Louise Westling
Maps for Tourists: Hardy, Narrative, Ecology	267	(8)
Richard Kerridge
The Flesh of the World: Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts	275	(7)
Carol H. Cantrell
Defending Middle-Earth	282	(6)
Patrick Curry
Leslie Silko: Environmental Apocalypticism	288	(5)
Lawrence Buell
Flooding the Boundaries of Form: Terry Tempest Williams's Unnatural History	293	(6)
Cheryll Glotfelty
The `Lambs' in The Silence of the Lambs	299	(3)
Jhan Hochman
Glossary	302	(2)
Bibliography	304	(5)
Index	309