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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Ecocritical Geographies, Geocritical Ecologies, and the Spaces of Modernity
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Trans-Theoretical Practices
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Surveying Territories
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Ecocritical Explorations
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About this book
Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, this interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the complementary and contested aspects of these approaches to literature, culture, and society.
Reviews
“This book’s most notable achievement is its interdisciplinary synthesis of the disciplines of literature and geography more broadly. The wide-ranging scope of the literature considered is certainly a strength of work, ranging from North Atlantic environmental multimedia and practice-based poetry to gothic writing and world literature. Through careful handling, the collection moves critically between post colonialism and ecology, psychoanalysis, ecofeminism and post naturalism, acknowledging the literary significance of spatiality and the environment.” (Chloe Ashbridge, Literary Geographies, Vol. 4 (2), 2018)
"This is a timely volume that engages with a significant and growing area of literary and cultural studies. For some time there have been two largely distinct schools - place studies and spatial theory - that explore related but rarely linked ideas. This collection is designed to help bring these two approaches together. And it does so admirably. It is a significant contribution and will help to reconcile the differing strands of place and spatial theory. I learned a lot from it and I am sure other readers will as well." - Tom Lynch, Professor of English, University of Nebraska, USA
"This is a timely volume that engages with a significant and growing area of literary and cultural studies. For some time there have been two largely distinct schools - place studies and spatial theory - that explore related but rarely linked ideas. This collection is designed to help bring these two approaches together. And it does so admirably. It is a significant contribution and will help to reconcile the differing strands of place and spatial theory. I learned a lot from it and I am sure other readers will as well." - Tom Lynch, Professor of English, University of Nebraska, USA
About the authors
Christine M. Battista is the Chair of Media and Communication Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Johnson and Wales University, USA, where she teaches critical media studies, literary theory, American literature, and postcolonial literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecocriticism and Geocriticism
Book Subtitle: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies
Editors: Robert T. Tally, Christine M. Battista
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137542625
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55367-6Published: 05 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55914-5Published: 06 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54262-5Published: 29 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 214
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, European Literature, North American Literature, Literary Theory, Literary History