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Index
Coverpage Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: the challenge
Anthropocentrism The literary and cultural criticism A crisis of the ‘natural’ The natures of nature A reading First quandary: climate change
Romantic and anti-romantic
Chapter 1 Old world romanticism
Romantic ecology The self-evidence of the natural? The inherent greenness of the literary? A reading: the case of John Clare Deep ecology
Chapter 2 New world romanticism
A reading: retrieving Walden Wild
Chapter 3 Genre and the question of non-fiction
‘You don't make it up’ Fiction or non-fiction? An aesthetic consumerism A reading: genres and the projection of animal subjectivity Second quandary: fiction or non-fiction?
Chapter 4 Language beyond the human?
A realist poetics The Spell of the Sensuous Third quandary: how human-centred is given language?
Chapter 5 The inherent violence of western thought?
The archetypal eco-fascist? The forest
Chapter 6 Post-humanism and the ‘end of nature’?
A reading: Frankenstein Ecology without nature?
The boundaries of the political
Chapter 7 Thinking like a mountain?
The aesthetic Fifth quandary: what isn't an environmental issue?
Chapter 8 Environmental justice and the move ‘beyond nature writing’
Social ecology A reading: A River Runs Through It Environmental criticism as cultural history? Sixth quandary: the antinomy of environmental criticism
Chapter 9 Two readings: European ecojustice Chapter 10 Liberalism and green moralism
The limits of liberal criticism A reading: William and Dorothy Wordsworth Seventh quandary: the rights of the yet-to-be-born
Chapter 11 Ecofeminism
An écriture ecofemine? ‘Nature provides us with few givens’
Chapter 12 ‘Post-colonial’ ecojustice
Environmentalism as neocolonialism? Is there yet a specifically environmental post-colonial criticism? Colonialism as the ‘Conquest of nature’ A reading: Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide Eighth quandary: overpopulation
Chapter 13 Questions of scale: the local, the national and the global
Methodological nationalism Literary ‘reinhabitation’? Questions of scale Ecopoetry
Science and the struggle for intellectual authority
Chapter 14 Science and the crisis of authority
The disenchantment thesis Facts versus values? a reading, Annie Dillard's ‘Galápagos’ The ‘naturalistic fallacy’ Against the facts–values split Ecology, ‘ecology’ and literature Hubert Zapf, Literature as Cultural Ecology
Chapter 15 Science studies
Studying science as a kind of behaviour The Selfish Gene Donna Haraway Ninth quandary: constructivism and doing justice to non-human agency
Chapter 16 Evolutionary theories of literature
The Standard Social Science Model Literature and human nature
Chapter 17 Interdisciplinarity and science: two essays on human evolution
Tenth quandary: the challenge of scientific illiteracy
The animal mirror
Chapter 18 Ethics and the non-human animal
‘Kiss goodbye to the idea that humans are qualitatively different from other animals’ Human–animal Twelfth quandary: reading the animal as ‘construct’
Chapter 19 Anthropomorphism
An art of animal interpretation A reading: The Wind in the Pylons
Chapter 20 The future of ecocriticism?
Final brief quandary: what place environmental criticism in the modern ‘University of Excellence’?
Notes Further reading Index
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