The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Westling, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107628962 ISBN 13: 9781107628960

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from leading experts in the field probe a range of issues, including the place of the human within nature, ecofeminism and gender, engagements with European philosophy and the biological sciences, critical animal studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism, and climate change. A chronology of key publications and bibliography provide ample resources for further reading, making The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment an essential guide for students, teachers, and scholars working in this rapidly developing area of study.

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Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment

Review:

'... provides a wide-ranging overview of the first three decades of ecocriticism, gives both a thorough introduction of the field to the novice, as well as suggestions for those more familiar with the field on where ecocriticism is going next. Consequently, it is an important contribution to the development of the field, and a testimony to its growing importance as a mode of analysis.' Astrid Bracke, English Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107628962
• ISBN 13: 9781107628960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286