This collection of essays on ecocriticism can be used in classes in ecocriticism, introduction to graduate studies courses, and introduction to theory and criticism courses. Essays are organized in se
Drawing on material spanning from deep geological time to the end of the seventeenth century, this book describes the Virginian landscape, emphasizing the changes it has undergone over time. Discussi
Scholars of English and comparative literature and philosophy draw on traditions of thinking about nature and culture, and about the role of literature and the arts in shaping this thinking, that aros
Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews cede
The recent recognition of sign languages as legitimate human languages has opened up new and unique ways for both theoretical and applied psycholinguistics and language acquisition have begun to demon
We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In "Wild Dog Dreaming, " Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethic
Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. InReclaiming Nostalgia, Jennifer Ladin
