Environmental criticism for the twenty-first century. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited and introduced by Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner.
• Other Names: LeMenager, Stephanie, 1968-; Shewry, Teresa; Hiltner, Ken
• Contents: The mesh / Timothy Morton -- Posthuman/postnatural: ecocriticism and the sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Paul Outka -- Revisiting the virtuoso: natural history collectors and their passionate engagement with nature / Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Chimerical figurations at the monstrous edges of species / Jill H. Casid -- The city refigured: environmental vision in a transgenic age / Allison Carruth -- Ecopoetics and the origins of English literature / Alfred K. Siewers -- Amerindian Eden: the divine weekes of Du Bartas / Edward M. Test -- Erasure by U.S. legislation: Ruiz de Burton's nineteenth-century novels and the lost archive of Mexican American environmental knowledge / Priscilla Solis Ybarra -- Shifting the center: a tradition of environmental literacy discourse from Africa / Byron Caminero-Santangelo -- Ecomelancholia: slavery, war, and black ecological imaginings / Jennifer C. James -- Home again: peak oil, climate change, and the aesthetics of transition / Michael G. Ziser -- Reclaiming Nimby: nuclear waste, Jim Day, and the rhetoric of local resistance / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Imagining a Chinese eco-city / Julie Sze and Yi Zhou -- "No debt outstanding": the postcolonial politics of local food / Susie O'Brien -- Pathways to the sea: involvement and the commons in works by Ralph Hotere, Cilla McQueen, Hone Tuwhare, and Ian Wedde / Teresa Shewry -- Afterword, an interview with Elaine Scarry.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (310 pages), (22 illustrations)
• Subjects: 809/.9336; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General; Ecocriticism; Environmental protection in literature; Environmental policy in literature; Nature conservation in literature; Ecology in literature; NATURE / Ecology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136710506; 1136710507
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.