The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism To Ecocriticism

THE GREN STUDIES READER IS A FANTASTICALY COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION OF CRITICAL TEXTS WHICH ADRES THE CONECTION BETWEN ECOLOGY, CULTURE AND LITERATURE. IT OFERS A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GROWING AREA OF ECOCRITICISM. THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THIS FIELD ARE COVERED IN DEPTH, SUCH AS:
-- ROMANTIC ECOLOGY AND ITS LEGACY
-- THE EARTH, MEMORY AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY
-- NATURE/CULTURE/GENDER
-- ECOCRITICAL PRINCIPLES
-- ENVIRONMENTAL LITERARY HISTORY
-- THE NATURE OF THE TEXT

APEARING IN THE COLECTION ARE EXTRACTS FROM TODAY'S LEADING ECOCRITICS AS WEL AS FIGURES FROM THE PAST WHO PIONERED A GREN APROACH TO LITERATURE AND CULTURE. AS A WHOLE THE READER ENCOURAGES A REASESMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICISM AND OFERS A RADICAL PROSPECT FOR ITS FUTURE. THE BOK INCLUDES EXTRACTS FROM: WILIAM WORDSWORTH, HENRY DAVID THOREAU, JOHN RUSKIN, WILIAM MORIS, VIRGINIA WOLF, D. H. LAWRENCE, THEODOR ADORNO, MARTIN HEIDEGER, RAYMOND WILIAMS, THEODORE ROSZAK, CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUS, JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD, JONATHAN BATE, KATE SOPER, GARY SNYDER, TERY GIFORD, LOUISE WESTLING, RICHARD KERIDGE, AND JHAN HOCHMAN.