Description
Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler.
Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume responds to the diversity of the field today and explores its key concepts, including:
- pollution
- pastoral
- wilderness
- apocalypse
- animals
- Indigeneity
- the Earth.
Thoroughly revised to reflect the breadth and diversity of twenty-first-century environmental writing and criticism, this edition addresses climate change and justice throughout, and features a new chapter on Indigeneity. It also presents a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading.
Concise, clear and authoritative, Ecocriticism offers the ideal introduction to this crucial subject for students of literary and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
- Beginnings: Pollution
- Positions
- Pastoral
- Wilderness
- Apocalypse
- Animals
- Indigeneity
- The Earth
- Conclusion: Ecocriticism in the Future
Cornucopia
Ecological Modernisation
Ecofeminism
Political Ecology and Environmental Justice
Radical Ecology
New Materialism
Old World Pastoral
Colonial and Black Pastoral in America
Contemporary British Environmental Literature
Pastoral Ecology
Old World Wilderness
The Sublime
Wilderness in North America
The Trouble with Wilderness
The New Wild?
Myths of Annihilation and Redemption
The Secular Apocalypse
Environmental Apocalypse
Climate Apocalypse
Why Animals Matter
Looking at Animals: A Typology
Why Look at Wild Animals?
Acknowledgements
The ‘Ecological Indian’ and Ecological Indigeneity
North American Indigenous Literatures
Decolonisation, Indigenisation and Ecocriticism
Images
Data
Narratives
Index
