Reading the Earth: New Directions in the

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press Ecocriticism is a scholary approach to literature that is rapidly building momentum and legitimacy because of its usefulness as a means of inquiry into the relationship between human culture and the nonhuman world. This collection demonstrates promising new directions in the study of literature and environment and suggests the importance and passion of this scholarly enterprise.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ego or Eco Criticism? Looking for Common Ground	p. 3
Toward an Ecology of Justice: Transformative Ecological Theory and Practice	p. 9
Talking about Trees in Stumptown: Pedagogical Problems in Teaching EcoComp	p. 19
Dropping the Subject: Reflections on the Motives for an Ecological Criticism	p. 29
Bodega Head: An Excursion in Nuclear Shamanism	p. 41
"Whole Shoals of Men": Representations of Women Anglers in Seventeenth-Century British Poetry	p. 55
Dorothy Wordsworth, Ecology, and the Picturesque	p. 67
Mary Austin's Nature: Refiguring Tradition through the Voices of Identity	p. 79
Misogyny in the American Eden: Abbey, Cather, and Maclean	p. 97
The Body as Bioregion	p. 107
The Ornithological Autobiography of John James Audubon	p. 119
"A beautiful and thrilling specimen": George Catlin, the Death of Wilderness, and the Birth of the National Subject	p. 129
Nathaniel Hawthorne Had a Farm: Artists, Laborers, and Landscapes in The Blithedale Romance	p. 145
Agrarian Environmental Models in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Farming"	p. 155
Exploring the Linguistic Wilderness of The Maine Woods	p. 165
"I only seek to put you in rapport": Message and Method in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days	p. 179
Beyond the Excursion: Initiatory Themes in Annie Dillard and Terry Tempest Williams	p. 197
Aime Cesaire's A Tempest and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books as Ecological Readings and Rewritings of Shakespeare's The Tempest	p. 209
Seeing, Believing, and Acting: Ethics and Self-Representation in Ecocriticism and Nature Writing	p. 225
Don DeLillo's Postmodern Pastoral	p. 235
"The world was the beginning of the world": Agency and Homology in A.R. Ammons's Garbage	p. 247
Notes on Editors and Contributors	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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