Preface; Introduction: the challenge; Part I. Romantic and Anti-Romantic: 1. Old World Romanticism; 2. New World Romanticism; 3. Genre and the ethics of nonfiction; 4. Language beyond the human?; 5. The inherent violence of Western thought?; 6. Posthumanism and the 'end of nature'; Part II. The Boundaries of the Political: 7. Thinking like a mountain?; 8. Environmental justice and the move 'beyond nature writing'; 9. European eco-justice; 10. Liberalism and Green moralism; 11. Ecofeminism; 12. 'Postcolonial' eco-justice; 13. Questions of scale: the local, the national and the global; Part III. Science and the Struggle for Intellectual Authority: 14. Science and the crisis of authority; 15. Science studies; 16. Evolutionary theories of literature; 17. Interdisciplinarity and science: two essays on human evolution; Part IV. The Animal Mirror: 18. Ethics and the nonhuman animal; 19. Anthropomorphism; 20. The future of ecocriticism; Further reading; Index.
A comprehensive overview of the arguments in environmental criticism, first published in 2011.
Timothy Clark is Professor of English at Durham University.
'The challenge Clark faces comes [from] … the assertion that
literary studies can make a significant contribution to the rapidly
evolving ecological debate … This challenge makes the depth and
breadth of Clark's penetrating survey all the more impressive.' The
Times Literary Supplement
'Clark guides the student reader to ask good, difficult questions
of environmental justice, eco-postcolonial criticism, and
phenomenology. I must pronounce [his] book an outstanding
introduction to ecocriticism.' Greg Garrard, ISLE:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
'In this superb book, Timothy Clark has achieved what the best
introductions for students achieve: brief, accurate and readable
summaries of the main positions in a field, combined with a series
of provocative and stimulating questions to be explored in class.
Clark has done this and more - he has written a book that any
ecocritic should read.' Richard Kerridge, Green Letters
'Far from a pedestrian college textbook, Clark's Introduction to
Literature and the Environment is an erudite survey of ecocriticsm
accessible to both scholar and student, as well as a practical tool
for demonstrating literature's representation of and engagement
with environmental issues of all kinds … I can think of no better
intellectual map of ecocriticism's present state or future
prospects than this book.' Modern Philology
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