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Further Reading in Ecocriticism

Branch, Michael P., and Scott Slovic, eds.The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism 1993–2003. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

———. The Future of Environmental Criticism. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.

———. Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the US and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Choné, Aurélie, Isabelle Hajek, and Philippe Hamman, eds. Rethinking Nature: Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries. London: Routledge, 2017. 

Clark, Timothy. Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth and George B. Handley, eds. Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Evernden, Neil. The Social Creation of Nature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold Fromm, eds. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Goodbody, Axel. The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxieties, Visions, Realities. Rochester: Berghahn, 2002.

———. Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Goodbody, Axel, and Kate Rigby, eds. Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Heise, Ursula K. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Heringman, Noah. Romantic Rocks: Aesthetics, Geology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.

Huggan, Graham and Helen Tiffin, eds. Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment. London and New York: Routledge, 2010.

Hutchings, Kevin. Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770–1850. Montreal: McGill University Press, 2009.

Ireton, Sean and Caroline Schaumann, eds. Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012.

Kerridge, Richard and Niel Sammels, eds. Writing the Environment. Ecocriticism and Literature. London and New York: Zed, 1998.

Kroeber, Karl. Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Love, Glen. Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Meeker, Joseph W. The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology and a Play Ethic. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.

Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

———. The Ecological Thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Murphy, Patrick D. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, and Fields. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009.

Rigby, Kate. Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Humanities, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015.

———. Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Rosedale, Steven, ed. The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.

Schaumann, Caroline, and Heather Sullivan. German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene. New York: Palgrave, 2017.

Tallmadge, John and Henry Harrington, eds. Reading under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000.

Wilke, Sabine. Narrating and Depicting Nature: The Modern German Environmental Imagination. Amsterdam: Brill-Rodopi, 2015.

Wilke, Sabine, and Japhet Johnstone. Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.