What is a literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with each other? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of
Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological tran
This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist prac
The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his
Critics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, prove