Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity’s path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

Adrian Tait is an ecocritic with a particular interest in Victorian and modernist literary responses to environmental crisis.

Mary Trachsel is a retired Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Iowa, USA.