Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews cede
Drawing on material spanning from deep geological time to the end of the seventeenth century, this book describes the Virginian landscape, emphasizing the changes it has undergone over time. Discussi
The contributors to Framing the World offer in-depth analyses of a broad range of films, including fictional and documentary, Hollywood and independent, domestic and foreign, experimental and indigen
Scholars of English and comparative literature and philosophy draw on traditions of thinking about nature and culture, and about the role of literature and the arts in shaping this thinking, that aros
This collection of essays on ecocriticism can be used in classes in ecocriticism, introduction to graduate studies courses, and introduction to theory and criticism courses. Essays are organized in se
Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. InReclaiming Nostalgia, Jennifer Ladin
We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In "Wild Dog Dreaming, " Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethic
