The greening of literary scholarship : literature, theory, and the environment

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

The greening of literary scholarship : literature, theory, and the environment

edited by Steven Rosendale ; foreword by Scott Slovic

University of Iowa Press, c2002

  • : cloth
  • : pbk.

Available at  / 22 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index (p. [269]-275)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A collection of thirteen original essays by leaders in the emerging field of ecocriticism. The Greening of Literary Scholarship is devoted to exploring new and previously neglected literatures, theories, and methods in environmental-literary scholarship. Each essay in this impressive collection challenges the notion that the study of environmental literature is separate from traditional concerns of criticism, and each applies ecocritical scholarship to literature not commonly explored in this context. New historicism, postcolonialism, deconstructionism, and feminist and Marxist theories are all utilized to evaluate and gain new insights into environmental literature; at the same time, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Upton Sinclair, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Susan Howe are studied from an ecocritical perspective. At its core, The Greening of Literary Scholarship offers a practical demonstration of how articulating traditional and environmental modes of literary scholarship can enrich the interpretation of literary texts and, most important, revitalize the larger fields of environmental and literary scholarship.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top