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This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.
List of contents
French ecocriticism - Ecology/ecologies - Ecopoetics - Animal aesthetics - Forms of nature - Ecological thought - Environmental critique - Ecoerotica - Post-apocalyptic fiction - Becoming-milieu - The body - Landscapes - Ecocritique - Early modern - Sixteenth century - Nineteenth century - Twentieth century - Twenty-first century
About the author
Daniel Finch-Race is undertaking a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Southampton after completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge. His primary research entails ecocritical interpretations of nineteenth-century poetry¿in French and Italian. His publications include a co-edited volume about textures in French contexts, a co-edited issue about ecopoetics in nineteenth-century France, and articles about Baudelaire, Dante, Rimbaud, Tennyson, and¿Verlaine.
Stephanie Posthumus is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. Working in the field of contemporary French literature, she has published numerous articles on philosophies of nature and ecology, and on representations of landscapes, environments and non-human animals.
Report
«French Ecocriticism bietet mithin ganz im Sinne der Herausgeber einen guten Überblick über das breite Spektrum der französischen écocritique, in der Politik und Poetik zueinander finden und die Fachleuten noch zu entdeckendes wissenschaftliches Neuland in Aussicht stellt.»
(Walter Wagner, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 2/2018)
«[...] for anyone involved in the environmental humanities from a French perspective this volume is essential reading.»
(Phillip John Usher, French Studies, 73/1 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kny307)
