2013/12/18 by Louise Westling · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature #Environmental Philosophy and Ethics #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Ecocriticism #Scholarship #Posthumanism #Literary criticism #Criticism #Reading (process) #Field (mathematics) #Environmental ethics #Postcolonialism (international relations) #Ecofeminism #Sociology #History #Social science #Political science #Literature #Aesthetics #Art #Philosophy #Law
paper · doi:10.1017/cco9781139342728
openalex publication_date 2013/12/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from leading experts in the field probe a range of issues, including the place of the human within nature, ecofeminism and gender, engagements with European philosophy and the biological sciences, critical animal studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism, and climate change. A chronology of key publications and bibliography provide ample resources for further reading, making The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment an essential guide for students, teachers, and scholars working in this rapidly developing area of study.