Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

Ego or Eco Criticism? Looking for Common Ground

WILLIAM HOWARTH

Toward an Ecology of Justice: Transformative Ecological Theory and Practice

JONI ADAMSON CLARKE

Talking about Trees in Stumptown: Pedagogical Problems in Teaching EcoComp

MICHAEL MCDOWELL

Dropping the Subject: Reflections on the Motives for an Ecological Criticism

ERIC TODD SMITH

Bodega Head: An Excursion in Nuclear Shamanism

JOHN P. O'GRADY

PART II GENRE, GENDER, AND THE BODY OF NATURE

"Whole Shoals of Men": Representations of Women Anglers in Seventeenth-Century British Poetry

ANNE E. MCILHANEY

Dorothy Wordsworth, Ecology, and the Picturesque

ROBERT MELLIN

Mary Austin's Nature: Refiguring Tradition through the Voices of Identity

ANNA CAREW-MILLER

Misogyny in the American Eden: Abbey, Cather, and Maclean

J. GERARD DOLLAR

The Body as Bioregion

DEBORAH SLICER

PART III READINGS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE

The Ornithological Autobiography of John James Audubon

CHRIS BEYERS

"A beautiful and thrilling specimen": George Catlin, the Death of Wilderness, and the Birth of the National Subject

DAVID MAZEL

Nathaniel Hawthorne Had a Farm: Artists, Laborers, and Landscapes in The Blithedale Romance

KELLY M. FLYNN

Agrarian Environmental Models in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Farming"

STEPHANIE SARVER

Exploring the Linguistic Wilderness of The Maine Woods

ANN E. LUNDBERG

"I only seek to put you in rapport": Message and Method in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days

DANIEL J. PHILIPPON

PART IV READINGS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE

Beyond the Excursion: Initiatory Themes in Annie Dillard and Terry Tempest Williams

JOHN TALLMADGE

Aime Cesaire's A Tempest and Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books as Ecological Readings and Rewritings of Shakespeare's The Tempest

PAULA WILLOQUET-MARICONDI

Seeing, Believing, and Acting: Ethics and Self-Representation in Ecocriticism and Nature Writing

H. LEWIS ULMAN

Don DeLillo's Postmodern Pastoral

DANA PHILLIPS

"The world was the beginning of the world": Agency and Homology in A.R. Ammons's Garbage

LEONARD M. SCIGAJ

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Index