Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies

✍ Scribed by Robert T. Tally Jr, Christine M. Battista (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 218
Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Ecocritical Geographies, Geocritical Ecologies, and the Spaces of Modernity....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Geocriticism Meets Ecocriticism: Bertrand Westphal and Environmental Thinking....Pages 19-35
Ecocritical and Geocritical Conjunctions in North Atlantic Environmental Multimedia and Place-Based Poetry....Pages 37-54
Noncommittal Commitment: Alien Spaces of Ecocosmopolitics in Recent World Literature....Pages 55-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Affective Edgelands: Wildness, History, and Technology in Britain’s Postindustrial and Postnatural Topographies....Pages 77-93
“The sea was the river, the river the sea”: The Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel in Robert Minhinnick and Philip Gross....Pages 95-112
Black Jungle, Beautiful Forest: A Postcolonial, Green Geocriticism of the Indian Sundarbans....Pages 113-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Outside Within: Natural Environment and Social Place in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca ....Pages 137-153
Joseph Hall’s Mundus Alter et Idem and the Geosatirical Indictment of the English Crown....Pages 155-169
Nature and the Oppressed Female Body in Nora Okja Keller’s Ecofeminist Aesthetics....Pages 171-188
Toward an Environmental Imagination of Displacement in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry....Pages 189-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-214

✦ Subjects

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