Ecocriticism and Shakespeare Reading Ecophobia

This award-winning book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of "Nature" in Shakespeare. Engaging close readings with theoretical sophistication makes this book a path-breaking contribution to both Shakespearean scholarship and the burgeoning field of ecocriticism.

Simon C. Estok is Professor of English and teaches ecocriticism, literary theory, and Shakespearean literature at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, where he is a Junior Fellow. Estok has published in such journals as PMLA, Mosaic, Configurations, English Studies in Canada, ISLE, and others and is the Associate Editor for CLCWeb.

1. Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare
2. Dramatizing Environmental Fear: King Lear's Unpredictable Natural Spaces and Domestic Places
3. Coriolanus and Ecocriticism: A Study in Confluent Theorizing
4. Pushing the Limits of Ecocriticism: Environment and Social Resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV
5. Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: Race, Gender, and Ecophobia
6. Disgust, Metaphor, Women: Ecophobic Confluences
7. Staging Exotica and Ecophobia
8. The Ecocritical Unconscious: Early Modern Sleep as 'Go-between'
Coda: Ecocriticism on the Lip of a Lion