This book examines the often-complex relationships between issues of gender and the environment in science fiction films and fiction. Its contributors discuss a range of texts: early apocalyptic science fiction, campy midcentury science fiction films, Silver Age superhero comics…
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"This book focuses on the variety of ways that gender and "nature" interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of living; it asks what if, and that question i…
Romantic Sustainability is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. The essays examine the traditional Romantic canon but also delve into less well-known authors, all while interrogating issues of race, ge…
Romantic Sustainability is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. The essays examine the traditional Romantic canon but also delve into less well-known authors, all while interrogating issues of race, ge…
Romantic Sustainability is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. The essays examine the traditional Romantic canon but also delve into less well-known authors, all while interrogating issues of race, ge…
Offers a collection of sixteen essays that examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Contributors address the works of traditional Romantic writers such as John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Samuel Coleridge but also delve into ecocritica…
Romantic Sustainability is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. The essays examine the traditional Romantic canon but also delve into less well-known authors, all while interrogating issues of race, ge…
"In New France and early Canada, young men who ventured into the forest to hunt and trade with Amerindians (coureurs de bois,?runners of the woods?), later traveling in big teams of canoes (voyageurs), were known for their independence. Often described as half-wild themselves, t…
This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from the seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century are portrayed in four works of French Canadian literature. Literary depictio…
Preface / ix -- Abbreviations / xiii -- 1. Unearthing Herstory An Introduction -- 2. Surveying the Virgin Land -- The Documents of Exploration and Colonization, 1500 -- 1740 -- 3. Laying Waste Her Fields of Plenty -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Visionary Line: The Poetry of Ph…
Introduction / Andrew Auge and Eugene O'Brien -- Reading Heaney's Bog Poems in the Anthropocene / Andrew Auge -- Songs in Stone: Moya Cannon and Ecomusicology / Donna Potts -- 'Balanced between Cliff and Flowers': The Enduring Earth Step in Moya Cannon's 'Word Pools' / Christine…
"Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish …
