Ecocriticism & Ecoaesthetics


Primary Sources   I   Ecocriticism & Ecoaesthetics


Stacy Alaimo, Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000).

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands—La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987).

Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds., Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (2001).

Jonathan Bate, "Poetry and Biodiversity," Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature (ed. Richard Kerridge et al., 1998).

Michael Branch, "Ecocriticism: The Nature of Nature in Literary Theory and Practice," Weber Studies (1994).

Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995).

Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (3d ed., 2000).

Cynthia Deitering, "The Postnatural Novel: Toxic Consciousness in Fiction of the 1980s" (Glotfelty and Fromm).

Cynthia Deitering, "Forum on Literatures of the Environment," PMLA 114 (1999).

Barbara Gates and Ann B. Shteir, eds., Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science (1997).

Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, eds., The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology (1995).

Susan Griffin, Women and Nature: The Roaring inside Her (1978).

Dominic Head, "The (Im)possibility of Ecocriticism," Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature (ed., Richard Kerridge et al., 1998).

Ynestra King, "Feminism and the Revolt of Nature," Heresies 4 (1981).

Annette Kolodny, The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience in American Life and Letters (1975).

Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964).

David Mazel, "American Literary Environmentalism as Domestic Orientalism" (Glotfelty and Fromm).

Joseph Meeker, The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology and a Play Ethic (1972, 3d ed., 1997).

Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution (1980).

Patrick D. Murphy, Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook (1998).

Patrick D. Murphy, New Literary History 30.3 (1999, special issue on ecocriticism).

Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1991).

Diana M. A. Relke, Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women’s Poetry (1999)

Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (1973).

Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1991).