The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment

The Challenge

Romantic and Anti-Romantic. Old world romanticism ; New world romanticism ; Genre and the ethics of nonfiction ; Language beyond the human? ; The inherent violence of Western thought? ; Posthumanism and the 'end of nature'

The Boundaries of the Political. Thinking like a mountain? ; Environmental justice and the move 'beyond nature writing' ; European eco-justice ; Liberalism and green moralism ; Ecofeminism ; 'Postcolonial' eco-justice' ; Questions of scale: the local, the national and the global

Science and the Struggle for Intellectual Authority. Science and the crisis of authority ; Science studies ; Evolutionary theories of literature ; Interdisciplinarity and science: two essays on human evolution

The Animal Mirror. Ethics and the nonhuman animal ; Anthropomorphism ; The future of ecocriticism.