The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism

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Green Studies is a booming area for study and 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. Included are extracts from today's leading ecocritics and figures from the past who pioneered a green approach to literature and culture. This Reader sets the agenda for Green Studies and encourages a reassessment of development of criticism and offers readers a radical view of its future. Cover THE GREEN STUDIES READER Contents Preface Acknowledgements Foreword General Introduction NOTES SECTION ONE Green Tradition PART I Romantic Ecology and its Legacy Introduction 1 Nature as Imagination 2 Primary Laws [PURPOSE] [PLEASURE] 3 The Dialectic of Mind and Nature [THE SUBJECTIVE & OBJECTIVE] [IMAGINATION] 4 Writing the Wilderness 5 Landscape, Mimesis and Morality THE PATHETIC FALLACY THE MORAL OF LANDSCAPE NOTE 6 Art, Socialism and Environment 7 Dorothy Wordsworth: The Spirit of Appearances 8 John Clare, Love Poet of Nature 9 William Wordsworth: Poetry, Chemistry, Nature [AFTER NEWTON] WORDSWORTH AND ‘NATURE’ 10 The Green Language [WORDSWORTH] [CLARE] WORDSWORTH: WORKS CITED CLARE: WORKS CITED PART II The Earth, Memory and the Critique of Modernity Introduction NOTES 11 Studying Nature 12 Remembering Pan 13 The Organic Community [‘PROGRESS’] THE LOSS OF THE ORGANIC COMMUNITY 14 The Logic of Domination 15 Nature as ‘Not Yet’ CONDEMNATION OF NATURAL BEAUTY NATURAL BEAUTY AND ART BEAUTY ARE INTERLOCKED NATURE AS A CIPHER OF THE RECONCILED NOTE 16 Shakespeare’s Three Natures [NATURE: FEUDAL AND CAPITALIST] CORDELIA AS NATURE 17 ‘. . . Poetically Man Dwells . . .’ 18 Hyper-Technologism, Pollution and Satire HOW SETTLE ON SATIRE? TOWARDS HELHAVEN THE PLOT THICKENS THE SEVEN STEPS 19 The Machine in the Garden SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1844 THE PASTORAL DESIGN NOTES 20 Against Single Vision [BLAKE’S STRUGGLE] [WORDSWORTH’S REVOLUTION OF PERCEPTION] [THE VISIONARY WHOLE] SECTION TWO Green Theory PART III Nature/Culture/Gender Introduction NOTES 21 The Idea of Nature [THE ‘TEXTUALITY’ OF NATURE?] ECOLOGICAL DISCOURSES OF NATURE NOTES 22 Language Goes Two Ways 23 The Environment of Myth 24 Ecology as Discourse of the Secluded SUPPLEMENTARITY AND THE SECLUDED WRITING AS ANAMNESIS AND WORKING THROUGH CHILDLIKE FEAR OF THE GIVEN WRITING AND PRESENCE MANY BODIES SURVIVAL AFTER THE EXPLOSION OF THE SUN – CREATIVITY AND CHILDHOOD 25 Naturalized Woman and Feminized Nature WOMAN AS ‘NATURE’ NATURE AS ‘WOMAN’ NOTES 26 The Dualism of Primatology 27 Hélène Cixous: The Language of Flowers WORKS CITED PART IV Ecocritical Principles Introduction NOTE 28 Ecocriticism: Containing Multitudes, Practising Doctrine 29 Ecocriticism in Context WORKS CITED 30 From ‘Red’ to ‘Green’ [ROMANTIC IDEOLOGY?] [THE GREAT PASTORAL CON-TRICK?] [THERE IS NO NATURE?] NOTES 31 The Social Construction of Nature WORKS CITED 32 Representing the Environment [THE REFERENTIAL DIMENSION] [THE AESTHETICS OF DUAL ACCOUNTABILITY] NOTES 33 Radical Pastoral? THE NEWER HISTORICISM CIVIC IRONY AND PATHETIC FALLACY WORKS CITED 34 Green Cultural Studies [THE CATEGORY OF ‘WORLDNATURE’] [CULTURE AS NATURE?] [WHO SPEAKS FOR NATURE?] WORKS CITED 35 Ecofeminist Dialogics I II III IV WORKS CITED 36 A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism [BLURRING BOUNDARIES: AN ECOFEMINIST READING OF URSULA LE GUIN’S ‘BUFFALO GALS, WON’T YOU COME OUT TONIGHT?’] [IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOFEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM] WORKS CITED SECTION THREE Green Reading PART V Environmental Literary History Introduction 37 The Forest of Literature MACBETH’S CONCLUSION WASTELANDS WORKS CITED 38 Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, Post-Pastoral [PASTORAL: SHAKESPEARE] [ANTI-PASTORAL: BLAKE] POST-PASTORAL: HUGHES 39 Deep Form in Art and Nature 40 Culture as Decay: Arnold, Eliot, Snyder NOTES 41 Ecocriticism and the Novel [ECOCRITICISM] [THE NOVEL] [WATERLAND] NOTES 42 Ecothrillers: Environmental Cliffhangers WORKS CITED PART VI The Nature of the Text Introduction 43 The Ode ‘To Autumn’ as Ecosystem WORKS CITED 44 Thoreau’s Ambivalence Toward Mother Nature WORKS CITED 45 Maps for Tourists: Hardy, Narrative, Ecology WORKS CITED 46 The Flesh of the World: Virginia Woolf ’s Between the Acts WORKS CITED 47 Defending Middle-Earth NOTES 48 Leslie Silko: Environmental Apocalypticism NOTES 49 Flooding the Boundaries of Form: Terry Tempest Williams’s Unnatural History WORKS CITED 50 The ‘Lambs’ in The Silence of the Lambs WORKS CITED Glossary Bibliography Footnotes 1 Nature as Imagination 2 Primary Laws 3 The Dialectic of Mind and Nature 4 Writing the Wilderness 5 Landscape, Mimesis and Morality 6 Art, Socialism and Environment 7 Dorothy Wordsworth: The Spirit of Appearances 8 John Clare, Love Poet of Nature 9 William Wordsworth: Poetry, Chemistry, Nature 10 The Green Language 11 Studying Nature 12 Remembering Pan 13 The Organic Community 14 The Logic of Domination 15 Nature as ‘Not Yet’ 16 Shakespeare’s Three Natures 17 ‘. . . Poetically Man Dwells . . .’ 18 Hyper-Technologism, Pollution and Satire 19 The Machine in the Garden 20 Against Single Vision 21 The Idea of Nature 23 The Environment of Myth 24 Ecology as Discourse of the Secluded 25 Naturalized Woman and Feminized Nature 26 The Dualism of Primatology 27 Hélène Cixous: The Language of Flowers 28 Ecocriticism: Containing Multitudes, Practising Doctrine 29 Ecocriticism in Context 30 From ‘Red’ to ‘Green’ 31 The Social Construction of Nature 32 Representing the Environment 33 Radical Pastoral? 34 Green Cultural Studies 35 Ecofeminist Dialogics 36 A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism 37 The Forest of Literature 38 Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, Post-Pastoral 39 Deep Form in Art and Nature 40 Culture as Decay: Arnold, Eliot, Snyder 41 Ecocriticism and the Novel 42 Ecothrillers: Environmental Cliffhangers 43 The Ode ‘To Autumn’ as Ecosystem 44 Thoreau’s Ambivalence Toward Mother Nature 45 Maps for Tourists: Hardy, Narrative, Ecology 46 The Flesh of the World: Virginia Woolf ’s Between the Acts 47 Defending Middle-Earth 48 Leslie Silko: Environmental Apocalypticism 49 Flooding the Boundaries of Form: Terry Tempest Williams’s Unnatural History 50 The ‘Lambs’ in The Silence of the Lambs Index