The Green Studies Reader is 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 the Reader encourages a reassessment of the whole development of
criticism and will offer readers a radical prospect for its future.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgmnts
General Introduction Section I:Green Tradition
Part 1. Romantic Ecology and its Legacy
1. Nature as Imagination -Willliam Blake
2. Primary Laws -William Wordswoth
3. The Dialectic of Mind and Nature -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Writing the Wilderness -Henry David thoreau
5. Landscape, Mimesis and Morality -John Ruskin
6. Art, Socialism and Evironment -William Morris
7. Dorothy Wordsworth's Vision -Virginia Woolf
8. John Clare:The Love Poet of Nature -John Middleton Murry
9. William Wordsworth:Poetry, Chemistry, Nature -John F. Danby
10. the green Language -Raymond Williams
Part II The Earth, Memory and the Critique of Modernity Introduction
11. On Studying Nature -Edward Thomas
12. Remembering Pan -D.H. Lawrence
13. The Organic Community -F.R. Leavis
14. The Logic of Domination -Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer
15. Nature as "Not Yet" -Theodor W. Adorno
16. Shakespeare's Three Natures -John F. Danby
17. ...Poetically Man Dwells... -Martin Heidegger
18. Hyper-Technologism, Pollution and Satire -Kenneth Burke
19. The Machine in the Garden -Leo Marx
20. Countering Technocratic Culture -Theodore Roszak
Section II:Green Theory
Part 3 Nature/Culture/Gender
21. Nature and "Nurture" -Kate Soper
22. Language Goes Two Ways -Gary Snyder
23. Structuralism and Ecology -Claude Levi-Strauss
24. Ecology as the Discourse of the Secluded -Jean-Francois Lyotard
25. Naturalized Womand and Feminized Nature -Kate Soper
26. The Dualism of Primatology -Donna Haraway
27. Helene Cixous:The Language of Flowers -Verena Andermatt Conley
Part 4 Ecocritical Principles Introduction
28. Ecocriticism:Containing Multitudes, Practising Doctrine -Scott Slovic
29. Ecocriticism in Context -William Howarth
30. From "Red" to "Green" -Jonathan Bate
31. The Social Construction of Nature -Terry Gilford
32. Representing the Environment -Lawrence bell
33. Radical Pastoral? -Greg Garrard
34. Green Cultural Studies -Jhan Hochman
35. Ecofeminist Dialogies -Patrick D. Murphy
36. A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism -Karla Armbruster
Section III:Green Reading
Part 5 Environmental Literary History Introduction
37. The Forest of Literature -Robert Pogue Harrison
38. Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, Post-Pastoral -Terry Gifford
39. Deep Form in art and Nature -Betty and Theodore Roszak
40. Eliot, Snyder and the Decay of Culture -John Elder
41. Ecocriticism and the Novel -Dominic Head
42. Ecothrillers:Environmental Cliffhangers -Richard Kerridge Part 6 The Nature of the Text Introduction
43. "Ode to Autumn" as Ecosystem -Jonathan Bate
44. Thoreau's Ambivalence Toward Mother Nature -Louise Westling
45. Maps for Tourists:Hardy, Narrative, Ecology -Richard Kerridge
46. The Flesh of the World:Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts" -Carol H. Cantrell
47. Defending Middle-Earth -Patrick Curry
48. Leslie Silko:Environmental Apocalypticism -Lawrence Buell
49. Terry Tempest Williams:Flooding the Boundaries of Form -Cheryll Glotfelty
50. The "Lambs" in "Silence of the Lambs" -Jhan Hochman
