Foreword

Vera Norwood

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Laying the Foundation

Gender, Genus, and Genre: Women, Science, and Nature Writing in Early America

Daniel J. Philippon

Sentimental Ecology: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours

Richard M. Magee

``Appropriated Waters'': Austin's Revision of Thoreau in The Land of Little Rain

Matthew Bolinder

``Recounting'' the Land: Mary Austin and Early Twentieth-Century Narratives of Nature

Carol E. Dickson

II. Expanding the Genre

Gender and Genre: A New Perspective on Nineteenth-Century Women's Nature Writing

Marcia B. Littenberg

The Harvester and the Natural Bounty of Gene Stratton-Porter

Cheryl Birkelo

Willa Cather as Nature Writer: A Cry in the Wilderness

Mary R. Ryder

``That Florida Flavor'': Nature and Culture in Zora Neale Hurston's Work for the Federal Writers' Project

Valerie Levy

``A Happy, Rural Seat of Various Views'': The Ecological Spirit in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs and the Dunnett Landing Stories

Kelly L. Richardson

The Best Way is the Simplest: Florence Merriam and Popular Ornithology

Jen Hill

III. Nature Writing in the Twentieth Century

Writing the Swamp: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and The Everglades: River of Grass

Michael P. Branch

The Animal Anthropology of Sally Carrighar

Suzanne Ross

A View of Her Own: The Garden as Text

Tamara Fritze

Tending the Southern Vernacular Garden: Elizabeth Lawrence and the Market Bulletin

Karen Cole

Linda Hasselstrom: The Woman Rancher as Nature Writer

Rena Sanderson

The Land as Consciousness: Ecological Being and the Movement of Words in the Works of Leslie Marmon Silko

Karen E. Waldron

A New Mestiza Primer: Borderlands Philosophy in the Children's Books of gloria Anzaldua

Tiffany Ana Lopez

Phillip Serrato

Stalking a Prayer: Crossings of the Hunter and the Shaman in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Jenny Emery Davidson

Telling News of the Tainted Land: Environmental Justice Fiction by Women

Annie Merrill Ingram

Notes

Contributors

Index