Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader (Routledge Literature Readers) - Hardcover

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9780415508599: Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader (Routledge Literature Readers)
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ISBN 10: 0415508592 ISBN 13: 9780415508599
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting contemporary trends, including environmental justice, aesthetics and philosophy, and globalization.

Readings include the work of:

  • Raymond Williams
  • Jonathan Bate
  • Timothy Morton
  • Ursula Heise
  • Lawrence Buell
  • Kate Soper
  • Cary Wolfe
  • and Kate Rigby.

Containing seminal, representative, and contemporary work in the field, this volume and the editorial commentary is designed for use on both undergraduate and postgraduate ecocritical literature courses.

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About the Author

Ken Hiltner is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was the inaugural Director of the Literature and the Environment Initiative from 2007-11.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415508592
ISBN 13 
9780415508599
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
382
Editor
Hiltner Ken
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