Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Theoretical Approaches
  • 1 After 'Organic Community': Ecocriticism, Nature, and Human Nature
  • 2 Beyond 2000: Raymond Williams and the Ecocritic's Task
  • 3 Ecofeminism in Literary Studies
  • 4 Towards a Post-Pastoral View of British Poetry
  • 5 Postmodern Ecocriticism in the Science Fiction Novel: J.G. Ballard and Ken Kesey
  • 6 Cosmos as Metaphor: Eco-spiritual Poetics
  • 7 Narratives of Resignation: Environmentalism in Recent Fiction
  • 8 Ecotopian Fiction and the Sustainable Society
  • Part 2 Historical Approaches
  • 9 Making the Rocks Disappear: Refocusing Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales
  • 10 The Commodious Ark: Nature's Voice in Early Modern Poetry
  • 11 'Founded on the Affections' : A Romantic Ecology
  • 12 Was there a Victorian Ecology?
  • 13 Letting in the Sky: An Ecofeminist Reading of Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction
  • 14 Reversing the Fall: The Sense of Place in D.H. Lawrence
  • 15 Twentieth-Century Rural Poets of Britain and Ireland: Ecological Voices from the Geographical and Cultural Margins
  • Ecocriticism: An Annotated Bibliography
  • Index.