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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
Louise Westling
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Description for The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
Paperback. This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. Editor(s): Westling, Louise. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 398.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107628960
SKU
V9781107628960
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About Louise Westling
Louise Westling has been teaching in the English Department at the University of Oregon since 1977. She served as a visiting professor at the University of Tübingen and a Fulbright Professor at the University of Heidelberg, and as a president and founding member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. She is the author of The Green ... Read more
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
'… 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 ... Read more