Green Studies Reader

Laurence Coupe is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he teaches a course in ecological literary theory. He is the author of the 'Ecocriticism' and 'Myth' sections of the Annotated Bibliography for English Studies, and the author of Myth (Routledge, 1997). For further information on this author please see www.laurencecoupe.co.uk

• General Introduction SECTION ONE GREEN TRADITION Part I Romantic Ecology and its Legacy; Introduction 1 Nature as Imagination 2 Primary Laws 3 The Dialectic of Mind and Nature 4 Writing the Wilderness 5 Landscape, Mimesis and Morality 6 Art, Socialism and Environment 7 Dorothy Wordsworth: The Spirit of Appearances 8 John Clare, Love Poet of Nature 9 William Wordsworth: Poetry, Chemistry, Nature10 The Green Language Part II The Earth, Memory and the Critique of Modernity11 Studying Nature 12 Remembering Pan 13 The Organic Community 14 The Logic of Domination 15 Nature as ‘Not Yet’ 16 Shakespeare’s Three Natures 17 ‘. . . Poetically Man Dwells . . .’ 18 Hyper-Technologism, Pollution and Satire 19 The Machine in the Garden 20 Against Single Vision SECTION TWO GREEN THEORY Part III Nature/Culture/Gender 21 The Idea of Nature Kate 22 Language Goes Two Ways 23 The Environment of Myth 24 Ecology as Discourse of the Secluded 25 Naturalized Woman and Feminized Nature 26 The Dualism of Primatology 27 Hélène Cixous: The Language of Flowers Part IV Ecocritical Principles28 Ecocriticism: Containing Multitudes, Practising Doctrine 29 Ecocriticism in Context 30 From ‘Red’ to ‘Green’ 31 The Social Construction of Nature 32 Representing the Environment 33 Radical Pastoral? 34 Green Cultural Studies 35 Ecofeminist Dialogics 36 A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism SECTION THREE GREEN READING Part V Environmental Literary History 37 The Forest of Literature Robert Pogue Harrison 21238 Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, Post-Pastoral 39 Deep Form in Art and Nature 40 Culture as Decay: Arnold, Eliot, 41 Ecocriticism and the Novel 42 Ecothrillers: Environmental Cliffhangers Part VI The Nature of the Text 43 The Ode ‘To Autumn’ as Ecosystem 44 Thoreau’s Ambivalence Toward Mother Nature 45 Maps for Tourists: Hardy, Narrative, Ecology 46 The Flesh of the World: Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts 47 Defending Middle-Earth 48 Leslie Silko: Environmental Apocalypticism 49 Flooding the Boundaries of Form: Terry Tempest Williams’s Unnatural History 50 The ‘Lambs’ in The Silence of the Lambs.

'Laurence Coupe's Green Studies Reader provides an excellent overview of achievements to date in this emerging field . . . Coupe's anthology is a wide-ranging introduction to a thriving branch of literary study. The extracts are brief and well-chosen, and the wealth of introductory material is always informative. It should make a very good textbook, but it is also a stimulating collection for anyone interested in the fruitful intersection between environmentalism and literature.' - Annotated Bibliography for English Studies