The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis
	The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis	3
	Nature and Silence	15
	From Transcendence to Obsolescence: A Route Map	30
	Cultivating the American Garden	40
	The Uses of Landscape: The Picturesque Aesthetic and the National Park System	52
	Some Principles of Ecocriticism	69
	Beyond Ecology: Self, Place, and the Pathetic Fallacy	92
	Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism	105
	The Land and Language of Desire: Where Deep Ecology and Post-Structuralism Meet	124
	American Literary Environmentalism as Domestic Orientalism	137
	The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction	149
	The Comic Mode	155
	Unearthing Herstory: An Introduction	170
	Speaking a Word for Nature	182
	The Postnatural Novel: Toxic Consciousness in Fiction of the 1980s	196
	Is Nature Necessary?	204
	Revaluing Nature: Toward an Ecological Criticism	225
	The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Perspective	241
	Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination	264
	A Taxonomy of Nature Writing	276
	Indexing American Possibilities: The Natural History Writing of Bartram, Wilson, and Audubon	282
	Desert Solitaire: Counter-Friction to the Machine in the Garden	303
	Heroines of Nature: Four Women Respond to the American Landscape	323
	Nature Writing and Environmental Psychology: The Interiority of Outdoor Experience	351
	The Bakhtinian Road to Ecological Insight	371
	Recommended Reading	393
	Periodicals and Professional Organizations	401
	Contributors	403
	Index	409