The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism

✍ Scribed by Laurence Coupe

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Green Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology, culture, and literature. It offers a complete guide to the growing area of 'ecocriticism' and a wealth of material on green issues from the romantic period to the present.
Included are extracts from today's leading ecocritics and figures from the past who pioneered a green approach to literature and culture. This Reader sets the agenda for Green Studies and encourages a reassessment of development of criticism and offers readers a radical view of its future.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
THE GREEN STUDIES READER
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword
General Introduction
NOTES
SECTION ONE
Green Tradition
PART I
Romantic Ecology and its Legacy
Introduction
1 Nature as Imagination
2 Primary Laws
[PURPOSE]
[PLEASURE]
3 The Dialectic of Mind and Nature
[THE SUBJECTIVE & OBJECTIVE]
[IMAGINATION]
4 Writing the Wilderness
5 Landscape, Mimesis and Morality
THE PATHETIC FALLACY
THE MORAL OF LANDSCAPE
NOTE
6 Art, Socialism and Environment
7 Dorothy Wordsworth: The Spirit of Appearances
8 John Clare, Love Poet of Nature
9 William Wordsworth: Poetry, Chemistry, Nature
[AFTER NEWTON]
WORDSWORTH AND ‘NATURE’
10 The Green Language
[WORDSWORTH]
[CLARE]
WORDSWORTH: WORKS CITED
CLARE: WORKS CITED
PART II
The Earth, Memory and the Critique of Modernity
Introduction
NOTES
11 Studying Nature
12 Remembering Pan
13 The Organic Community
[‘PROGRESS’]
THE LOSS OF THE ORGANIC COMMUNITY
14 The Logic of Domination
15 Nature as ‘Not Yet’
CONDEMNATION OF NATURAL BEAUTY
NATURAL BEAUTY AND ART BEAUTY ARE INTERLOCKED
NATURE AS A CIPHER OF THE RECONCILED
NOTE
16 Shakespeare’s Three Natures
[NATURE: FEUDAL AND CAPITALIST]
CORDELIA AS NATURE
17 ‘. . . Poetically Man Dwells . . .’
18 Hyper-Technologism, Pollution and Satire
HOW SETTLE ON SATIRE?
TOWARDS HELHAVEN
THE PLOT THICKENS
THE SEVEN STEPS
19 The Machine in the Garden
SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1844
THE PASTORAL DESIGN
NOTES
20 Against Single Vision
[BLAKE’S STRUGGLE]
[WORDSWORTH’S REVOLUTION OF PERCEPTION]
[THE VISIONARY WHOLE]
SECTION TWO
Green Theory
PART III
Nature/Culture/Gender
Introduction
NOTES
21 The Idea of Nature
[THE ‘TEXTUALITY’ OF NATURE?]
ECOLOGICAL DISCOURSES OF NATURE
NOTES
22 Language Goes Two Ways
23 The Environment of Myth
24 Ecology as Discourse of the Secluded
SUPPLEMENTARITY AND THE SECLUDED
WRITING AS ANAMNESIS AND WORKING THROUGH
CHILDLIKE FEAR OF THE GIVEN
WRITING AND PRESENCE
MANY BODIES
SURVIVAL AFTER THE EXPLOSION OF THE SUN – CREATIVITY AND CHILDHOOD
25 Naturalized Woman and Feminized Nature
WOMAN AS ‘NATURE’
NATURE AS ‘WOMAN’
NOTES
26 The Dualism of Primatology
27 Hélène Cixous: The Language of Flowers
WORKS CITED
PART IV
Ecocritical Principles
Introduction
NOTE
28 Ecocriticism: Containing Multitudes, Practising Doctrine
29 Ecocriticism in Context
WORKS CITED
30 From ‘Red’ to ‘Green’
[ROMANTIC IDEOLOGY?]
[THE GREAT PASTORAL CON-TRICK?]
[THERE IS NO NATURE?]
NOTES
31 The Social Construction of Nature
WORKS CITED
32 Representing the Environment
[THE REFERENTIAL DIMENSION]
[THE AESTHETICS OF DUAL ACCOUNTABILITY]
NOTES
33 Radical Pastoral?
THE NEWER HISTORICISM
CIVIC IRONY AND PATHETIC FALLACY
WORKS CITED
34 Green Cultural Studies
[THE CATEGORY OF ‘WORLDNATURE’]
[CULTURE AS NATURE?]
[WHO SPEAKS FOR NATURE?]
WORKS CITED
35 Ecofeminist Dialogics
I
II
III
IV
WORKS CITED
36 A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism
[BLURRING BOUNDARIES: AN ECOFEMINIST READING OF URSULA LE GUIN’S ‘BUFFALO GALS, WON’T YOU COME OUT TONIGHT?’]
[IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOFEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM]
WORKS CITED
SECTION THREE
Green Reading
PART V
Environmental Literary History
Introduction
37 The Forest of Literature
MACBETH’S CONCLUSION
WASTELANDS
WORKS CITED
38 Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, Post-Pastoral
[PASTORAL: SHAKESPEARE]
[ANTI-PASTORAL: BLAKE]
POST-PASTORAL: HUGHES
39 Deep Form in Art and Nature
40 Culture as Decay: Arnold, Eliot, Snyder
NOTES
41 Ecocriticism and the Novel
[ECOCRITICISM]
[THE NOVEL]
[WATERLAND]
NOTES
42 Ecothrillers: Environmental Cliffhangers
WORKS CITED
PART VI
The Nature of the Text
Introduction
43 The Ode ‘To Autumn’ as Ecosystem
WORKS CITED
44 Thoreau’s Ambivalence Toward Mother Nature
WORKS CITED
45 Maps for Tourists: Hardy, Narrative, Ecology
WORKS CITED
46 The Flesh of the World: Virginia Woolf ’s Between the Acts
WORKS CITED
47 Defending Middle-Earth
NOTES
48 Leslie Silko: Environmental Apocalypticism
NOTES
49 Flooding the Boundaries of Form: Terry Tempest Williams’s Unnatural History
WORKS CITED
50 The ‘Lambs’ in The Silence of the Lambs
WORKS CITED
Glossary
Bibliography
Footnotes
1 Nature as Imagination
2 Primary Laws
3 The Dialectic of Mind and Nature
4 Writing the Wilderness
5 Landscape, Mimesis and Morality
6 Art, Socialism and Environment
7 Dorothy Wordsworth: The Spirit of Appearances
8 John Clare, Love Poet of Nature
9 William Wordsworth: Poetry, Chemistry, Nature
10 The Green Language
11 Studying Nature
12 Remembering Pan
13 The Organic Community
14 The Logic of Domination
15 Nature as ‘Not Yet’
16 Shakespeare’s Three Natures
17 ‘. . . Poetically Man Dwells . . .’
18 Hyper-Technologism, Pollution and Satire
19 The Machine in the Garden
20 Against Single Vision
21 The Idea of Nature
23 The Environment of Myth
24 Ecology as Discourse of the Secluded
25 Naturalized Woman and Feminized Nature
26 The Dualism of Primatology
27 Hélène Cixous: The Language of Flowers
28 Ecocriticism: Containing Multitudes, Practising Doctrine
29 Ecocriticism in Context
30 From ‘Red’ to ‘Green’
31 The Social Construction of Nature
32 Representing the Environment
33 Radical Pastoral?
34 Green Cultural Studies
35 Ecofeminist Dialogics
36 A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism
37 The Forest of Literature
38 Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, Post-Pastoral
39 Deep Form in Art and Nature
40 Culture as Decay: Arnold, Eliot, Snyder
41 Ecocriticism and the Novel
42 Ecothrillers: Environmental Cliffhangers
43 The Ode ‘To Autumn’ as Ecosystem
44 Thoreau’s Ambivalence Toward Mother Nature
45 Maps for Tourists: Hardy, Narrative, Ecology
46 The Flesh of the World: Virginia Woolf ’s Between the Acts
47 Defending Middle-Earth
48 Leslie Silko: Environmental Apocalypticism
49 Flooding the Boundaries of Form: Terry Tempest Williams’s Unnatural History
50 The ‘Lambs’ in The Silence of the Lambs
Index