- ISBN: 9780873528092 | 0873528093
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/1/2008
| Foreword: Out of the Woods | p. 1 |
| Backgrounds | |
| Introduction: Teaching Environmental Literature - A Trek through the Field | p. 9 |
| The Varieties of Environmental Literature in North America | p. 24 |
| Ecocriticism as Praxis | p. 37 |
| Teaching Ecocritical Theory | p. 44 |
| "I Still Need the Revolution": Cultivating Ecofeminist Readers | p. 58 |
| Thinking with Animals: Teaching Animal Studies-Based Literature Courses | p. 72 |
| Mapping North American Environmental Literature | |
| Mexican and Chicana/o Environmental Writing: Unearthing and Inhabiting | p. 93 |
| Abandoning the Fort: Cultural Difference and Biodiversity in Canadian Literature and Criticism | p. 112 |
| United States Environmental Literature before the Twentieth Century | p. 126 |
| United States Environmental Literature of the Twentieth Century and Beyond | p. 139 |
| Teaching North American Environmental Literature | |
| Introduction: A Range of Approaches | p. 149 |
| Disciplinary Approaches | |
| Teaching American Modernism as Environmental Writing | p. 162 |
| Teaching Post-World War II American Poetry as Environmental Literature | p. 173 |
| "Ready to Come Home": Teaching African American Literature as Environmental Literature | p. 185 |
| For the Sake of the Land and All People: Teaching American Indian Literatures from an Environmental Justice Perspective | p. 194 |
| Teaching United States Environmental Literature in a World Comparatist Context | p. 203 |
| Asking Ecocritical Questions | p. 215 |
| "The Machine in the Garden": Using Electronic Portfolios to Teach Environmental Literature | p. 223 |
| Giving Voice to the Notice Authority: Silent Spring in the Composition Classroom | p. 236 |
| Interdisciplinary Approaches | |
| Teaching Environmental Literature on the Planet Indivisible | p. 248 |
| Predators in Literature | p. 256 |
| Reading the Landscape: Prairie Education through American Literature | p. 269 |
| East Asian Influence on Recent North American Nature Writing | p. 277 |
| Environmental Justice Issues in Literature and Film: From the Toxic to the Sustainable | p. 294 |
| Ethnic Ecoethics: Multicultural Environmental Philosophy and Literature | p. 306 |
| Teaching the Literature of Agriculture | p. 319 |
| Ecofeminist Canadian Literature | p. 328 |
| Place-Based Approaches | |
| Place-Based Courses and Teaching Literature Outdoors: An Overview | p. 335 |
| Finding Home in Nevada? Teaching the Literature of Place, on Location | p. 345 |
| Teaching Place and Community History to Undergraduates | p. 354 |
| Children of the Asphalt: Teaching the Nature of Los Angeles Literature | p. 363 |
| The Trouble with Texts; or, Green Cultural Studies in Texas | p. 369 |
| Living as Equipment for Literature: The Summer Environmental Writing Program | p. 377 |
| Experientially Teaching Canadian Travel Literature on the Trail and in the Classroom | p. 392 |
| "Come to Paradise-While It Lasts": Teaching Literary Ecology on Mexico's Costa Alegre | p. 403 |
| Resources | |
| Resources for Teaching Environmental Literature: A Selective Guide | p. 415 |
| General Reference | p. 416 |
| Ecocriticism | p. 417 |
| Teaching Anthologies and Collections | p. 418 |
| Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicano/a Environmental Literature | p. 419 |
| The Environmental Literature of Canada | p. 421 |
| Backgrounds to United States Environmental Writing | p. 422 |
| United States Environmental Writing through the Romantic Period | p. 422 |
| Natural History Writing | p. 423 |
| Nature Writing | p. 424 |
| Regional and Place-Based Writing | p. 425 |
| Bioregional Approaches | p. 427 |
| Environmental Poetry and Ecopoetics | p. 427 |
| Native American Literature | p. 428 |
| Environmental Science and Ecology | p. 428 |
| Environmental History | p. 429 |
| Environmental Ethics and Ecology | p. 430 |
| Religion and Nature | p. 431 |
| Ecofeminism | p. 431 |
| Environmental Justice | p. 432 |
| Ecocomposition and Environmental Rhetoric | p. 433 |
| Pedagogy | p. 434 |
| Visual Resources | p. 435 |
| Journals and Magazines | p. 435 |
| Electronic Resources | p. 436 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 437 |
| Works Cited | p. 445 |
| Index | p. 491 |
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