Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources

Bringing together 100 essential critical articles across 4 volumes, Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources is a comprehensive collection of the most important academic writings on ecocriticism and literature’s engagement with environmental crisis.

With texts by key scholars, creative writers and activists, the articles in these four volumes follow the development and history of environmental criticism, as well as interdisciplinary conversations with contemporary philosophy and media studies.

Literature and the Environment includes work by such writers as: Stacy Alaimo, Jonathan Bate, Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Derrida, Ursula K. Heise, Richard Kerridge, Bruno Latour, Rob Nixon, Arundati Roy, Ken Saro-Wiwa, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Henry David Thoreau, E.O. Wilson, Cary Wolfe and William Wordsworth.

Stephanie LeMenager is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor in English and American Literature and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, USA. She is co-founder (with Stephanie Foote) of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities and her previous books include Living Oil: Petroleum and Culture in the American Century (2014).

Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is the author of Hope At Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (2015).