The Environmental Tradition in English Literature

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Drawing upon the English literary tradition for new perspectives and paradigms, this collection presents a broad range of theoretical and historical approaches to ecocriticism. The first section of the volume offers different theoretical frameworks for ecocritical work, encompassing a range of socio-political, post-modern and multi-disciplinary approaches. In the second section, contributors explore the ways in which ecocriticism allows us to re-think literary history. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Theoretical Approaches 1 After 'Organic Community': Ecocriticism, Nature, and Human Nature 2 Beyond 2000: Raymond Williams and the Ecocritic's Task 3 Ecofeminism in Literary Studies 4 Towards a Post-Pastoral View of British Poetry 5 Postmodern Ecocriticism in the Science Fiction Novel: J.G. Ballard and Ken Kesey 6 Cosmos as Metaphor: Eco-spiritual Poetics 7 Narratives of Resignation: Environmentalism in Recent Fiction 8 Ecotopian Fiction and the Sustainable Society Part 2 Historical Approaches 9 Making the Rocks Disappear: Refocusing Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales 10 The Commodious Ark: Nature's Voice in Early Modern Poetry 11 'Founded on the Affections' : A Romantic Ecology 12 Was there a Victorian Ecology? 13 Letting in the Sky: An Ecofeminist Reading of Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction 14 Reversing the Fall: The Sense of Place in D.H. Lawrence 15 Twentieth-Century Rural Poets of Britain and Ireland: Ecological Voices from the Geographical and Cultural Margins Ecocriticism: An Annotated Bibliography Index