Peter Remien is an Associate Professor of English at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho. His recent book The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature (2019), published by Cambridge University Press, traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural philosophy. Scott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho. He was the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and edited the journal ISLE for twenty-five years. His many books include Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing (1992) and The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (2019).

• Introduction: the Nature of Literature Peter Remien and Scott Slovic; Part I. Origins: 1. The book of nature Rebecca Davis; 2. Pastoral Terry Gifford; 3. Wilderness Debbie Lee; 4. Lucretian materialism Brent Dawson; 5. Natural philosophy Mary Thomas Crane; 6. Natural history Ashton Nichols; Part II. Development: 7. Romantic nature Marc Cladis; 8. The sublime Michele Speitz; 9. Toward a transatlantic philosophy of nature Samantha Harvey; 10. Indigenous naturecultures Rayson K. Alex; 11. Postcolonial nature Philip Aghoghovwia; 12. Extinction Timothy Sweet; 13. Nature in the Anthropocene Ken Hiltner; Part III. Applications: 14. Nature, gender, sexuality Greta Gaard; 15. Nature and race John Gamber; 16. The nature of animality Michael Lundblad; 17. Cultivating nature Shiuhhuah Serena Chou; 18. Narrating nature Erin James; 19. Digital nature Lai-Tze Fan; 20. Toxic nature Pramod K. Nayar; 21. Messages from within Serenella Iovino.