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Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine 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.
List of contents
Preface to the Third Edition
- Beginnings: Pollution
- Positions
Cornucopia
Ecological Modernisation
Ecofeminism
Political Ecology and Environmental Justice
Radical Ecology
New Materialism
- Pastoral
Old World Pastoral
Colonial and Black Pastoral in America
Contemporary British Environmental Literature
Pastoral Ecology
- Wilderness
Old World Wilderness
The Sublime
Wilderness in North America
The Trouble with Wilderness
The New Wild?
- Apocalypse
Myths of Annihilation and Redemption
The Secular Apocalypse
Environmental Apocalypse
Climate Apocalypse
- Animals
Why Animals Matter
Looking at Animals: A Typology
Why Look at Wild Animals?
- Indigeneity
Acknowledgements
The 'Ecological Indian' and Ecological Indigeneity
North American Indigenous Literatures
Decolonisation, Indigenisation and Ecocriticism
- The Earth
Images
Data
Narratives
- Conclusion: Ecocriticism in the Future
Index
About the author
Greg Garrard is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, UBC Okanagan. He is the author of numerous essays on animal studies and environmental criticism, and co-author of Climate Change Skepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis (2019).
Summary
Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine 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.
