This book explores the range of ecocriticism. Purposefully it swerves into advocacy, anthropology, bioregionalism, environmental history, politics, rhetoric, visual arts, and other neglected areas that make for freer theorizing and more original critical designs.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Edging toward Ecology in Early American Natural History
Chapter 2: Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda
Chapter 3: West of Winthrop: Language and Landscape in Washington Territory
Chapter 4: An Iconography of Sabotage
Chapter 5: Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite Thought
Chapter 6: Overtures to Sublimity: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection
Chapter 7: American Nature Writing and the Wise-Use Movement
Chapter 8: Greening the Dramatic Canon
Chapter 9: Gifts and Misgivings in Place
Chapter 10: Restoring Bioregions through Applied Composition
Notes
Credits
Works Cited
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