Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment

by Branch, Michael P.; Johnson, Rochelle; Patterson, Daniel; Slovic, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780893012137
• ISBN10: 0893012130
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Caxton Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Introduction	xi
PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT	3	(52)
Ego or Eco Criticism? Looking for Common Ground	3	(6)
WILLIAM HOWARTH
Toward an Ecology of Justice: Transformative Ecological Theory and Practice	9	(10)
JONI ADAMSON CLARKE
Talking about Trees in Stumptown: Pedagogical Problems in Teaching EcoComp	19	(10)
MICHAEL MCDOWELL
Dropping the Subject: Reflections on the Motives for an Ecological Criticism	29	(12)
ERIC TODD SMITH
Bodega Head: An Excursion in Nuclear Shamanism	41	(14)
JOHN P. O'GRADY
PART II GENRE, GENDER, AND THE BODY OF NATURE	55	(64)
"Whole Shoals of Men": Representations of Women Anglers in Seventeenth-Century British Poetry	55	(12)
ANNE E. MCILHANEY
Dorothy Wordsworth, Ecology, and the Picturesque	67	(12)
ROBERT MELLIN
Mary Austin's Nature: Refiguring Tradition through the Voices of Identity	79	(18)
ANNA CAREW-MILLER
Misogyny in the American Eden: Abbey, Cather, and Maclean	97	(10)
J. GERARD DOLLAR
The Body as Bioregion	107	(12)
DEBORAH SLICER
PART III READINGS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE	119	(78)
The Ornithological Autobiography of John James Audubon	119	(10)
CHRIS BEYERS
"A beautiful and thrilling specimen": George Catlin, the Death of Wilderness, and the Birth of the National Subject	129	(16)
DAVID MAZEL
Nathaniel Hawthorne Had a Farm: Artists, Laborers, and Landscapes in The Blithedale Romance	145	(10)
KELLY M. FLYNN
Agrarian Environmental Models in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Farming"	155	(10)
STEPHANIE SARVER
Exploring the Linguistic Wilderness of The Maine Woods	165	(14)
ANN E. LUNDBERG
"I only seek to put you in rapport": Message and Method in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days	179	(18)
DANIEL J. PHILIPPON
PART IV READINGS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE	197	(62)
Beyond the Excursion: Initiatory Themes in Annie Dillard and Terry Tempest Williams	197	(12)
JOHN TALLMADGE
Aime Cesaire's A Tempest and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books as Ecological Readings and Rewritings of Shakespeare's The Tempest	209	(16)
PAULA WILLOQUET-MARICONDI
Seeing, Believing, and Acting: Ethics and Self-Representation in Ecocriticism and Nature Writing	225	(10)
H. LEWIS ULMAN
Don DeLillo's Postmodern Pastoral	235	(12)
DANA PHILLIPS
"The world was the beginning of the world": Agency and Homology in A.R. Ammons's Garbage	247	(12)
LEONARD M. SCIGAJ
Notes on Editors and Contributors	259	(4)
Index	263