IVO KAMPS is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.KAREN L. RABER is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.THOMAS HALLOCK is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA.

• PART I: ECOCRITICISM AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE: NEW APPROACHES, MATURING DISCIPLINES 'Slow Shakespeare; or, Reversing our Crimes Against Nature'; S.O'Dair 'Mute Timber? Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia'; T.Borlik 'Defining Nature Through Monstrosity'; G.Brown 'Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare'; S.Estok 'How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat'; K.Raber 'Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More's Utopia'; I.Kamps & M.L.Smith 'Summer's Lease: Shakespeare (and Others) in the Little Ice Age'; R.Markley PART II: THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH: THE IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION FOR EARLY MODERN NATURE 'Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Life-Giving Across the Species Barrier in an Early Modern Bible Harmony'; N.Johnson 'An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex'; M.Gimmel 'Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition'; J.Gatta 'The Pomology of Eden: Apple Culture and Early New England Poetry'; M.G.Ziser PART III: NATURE AND EMPIRE 'Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon's History'; A.Lioi 'Searching for De Soto: Narrative Scholarship, Ecocriticism, and the Problems of Place'; T.Hallock 'Imagining the Forest: Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Spanish and English Writings of the Southeast, 1542-1709'; E.Thomson Shields 'Would Thomas More Have Wanted to Go To Mars? The Eco-economy of Colonial Promotion Literature'; T.Sweet

'Sucha richly diverse book offers a sense of the range and promise of ecocriticism.' -Ecozon@

IVO KAMPS is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.KAREN L. RABER is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.THOMAS HALLOCK is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA.

• PART I: ECOCRITICISM AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE: NEW APPROACHES, MATURING DISCIPLINES 'Slow Shakespeare; or, Reversing our Crimes Against Nature'; S.O'Dair 'Mute Timber? Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia'; T.Borlik 'Defining Nature Through Monstrosity'; G.Brown 'Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare'; S.Estok 'How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat'; K.Raber 'Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More's Utopia'; I.Kamps & M.L.Smith 'Summer's Lease: Shakespeare (and Others) in the Little Ice Age'; R.Markley PART II: THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH: THE IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION FOR EARLY MODERN NATURE 'Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Life-Giving Across the Species Barrier in an Early Modern Bible Harmony'; N.Johnson 'An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex'; M.Gimmel 'Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition'; J.Gatta 'The Pomology of Eden: Apple Culture and Early New England Poetry'; M.G.Ziser PART III: NATURE AND EMPIRE 'Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon's History'; A.Lioi 'Searching for De Soto: Narrative Scholarship, Ecocriticism, and the Problems of Place'; T.Hallock 'Imagining the Forest: Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Spanish and English Writings of the Southeast, 1542-1709'; E.Thomson Shields 'Would Thomas More Have Wanted to Go To Mars? The Eco-economy of Colonial Promotion Literature'; T.Sweet

'Sucha richly diverse book offers a sense of the range and promise of ecocriticism.' -Ecozon@

IVO KAMPS is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.KAREN L. RABER is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.THOMAS HALLOCK is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA.

• PART I: ECOCRITICISM AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE: NEW APPROACHES, MATURING DISCIPLINES 'Slow Shakespeare; or, Reversing our Crimes Against Nature'; S.O'Dair 'Mute Timber? Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia'; T.Borlik 'Defining Nature Through Monstrosity'; G.Brown 'Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare'; S.Estok 'How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat'; K.Raber 'Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More's Utopia'; I.Kamps & M.L.Smith 'Summer's Lease: Shakespeare (and Others) in the Little Ice Age'; R.Markley PART II: THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH: THE IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION FOR EARLY MODERN NATURE 'Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Life-Giving Across the Species Barrier in an Early Modern Bible Harmony'; N.Johnson 'An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex'; M.Gimmel 'Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition'; J.Gatta 'The Pomology of Eden: Apple Culture and Early New England Poetry'; M.G.Ziser PART III: NATURE AND EMPIRE 'Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon's History'; A.Lioi 'Searching for De Soto: Narrative Scholarship, Ecocriticism, and the Problems of Place'; T.Hallock 'Imagining the Forest: Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Spanish and English Writings of the Southeast, 1542-1709'; E.Thomson Shields 'Would Thomas More Have Wanted to Go To Mars? The Eco-economy of Colonial Promotion Literature'; T.Sweet

'Sucha richly diverse book offers a sense of the range and promise of ecocriticism.' -Ecozon@