Bibliographies
Introduction to Ecocriticism Reading List
compiled by Karla Armbruster, 1/95, updated 11/95
Environmental/Cultural History
Black, John. The Domination of Man: The Search for Ecological Responsibility.
Collingwood, R.G. The Idea of Nature. London: Oxford UP, 1960.
Cronon, William. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." The Journal of American History 78 (March 1992): 1347-1376.
----. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
----, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past. New York: Norton, 1992.
Evernden, Neil. The Natural Alien.
Evernden, Neil. The Social Creation of Nature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.
Fowles, John. "Seeing Nature Whole." Harper's 259, no. 1554 (November
1979): 49-68.
Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. Farrar/Straus/Giroux, 1989.
Glacken, Clarence. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in
Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century.
Berkeley: U of California P, 1967.
Leiss, William. The Domination of Nature. Boston: Beacon Press, 1974.
MacLeish, William. The Day Before America: Changing the Nature of a Continent. Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. 1988. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind.
Norwood, Vera. Made from this Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel
Hill, NC: U of North Carolina P, 1993.
Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of
Ecology. New Haven: Yale UP, 1991.
Passmore, John. Man's Responsibility for Nature: Ecological Problems and
Western Traditions.
Shepherd, Paul. Nature and Madness. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1992.
Wilson, Alexander. The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from
Disney to the Exxon Valdez. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992.
Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. New York: Cambridge UP, 1985.
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Berman, Morris. The Reenchantment of the World. New York: Bantam, 1984.
Berry, Thomas. The Dream of the Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,
1988.
Berry, Wendell. "Getting Along with Nature." Home Economics: Fourteen
Essays by Wendell Berry. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.
Devall, Bill and George Sessions. Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature
Mattered. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1984.
Dinnerstein, Dorothy. The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements
and Human Malaise. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
Fox, Warwick. Toward a Transpersonal Ecology. Boston: Shambhala, 1990.
Leopold, Aldo. Sand County Almanac. Oxford, England: Oxford UP, 1949.
Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. New
York: Routledge, 11992.
Naess, Arne. "The Deep Ecological Movement, Some Philosophical Aspects."
Philosophical Inquiry 8 (1986): 10-13.
Nash, Roderick Frazier. The Rights of Nature. Madison, WI: University of
Wisconsin, 1989.
Slack, Jennifer Daryl, and Laurie Anne Whitt. "Ethics and Cultural
Studies." Cultural Studies. Ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and
Paula A. Treichler. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Bioregionalism
Andruss, Van, Christopher Plant, Judith Plant, and Eleanor Wright, eds.
Home: A Bioregional Reader. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1990.
Cheney, Jim. "Postmodern Envireonmental Ethics: Ethics as Bioregional
Narrative." Environmental Ethics 11 (Summer 1989): 117-134.
Evernden, Neil. "Beyond Ecology: Self, Place, and the Pathetic Fallacy." The North American Review 263 (Winter 1978): 16-20.
Jackson, Wes. Becoming Native to this Place. Lexington: U of Kentucky P,
1993.
Lopez, Barry. The Rediscovery of North America. New York: Vintage, 1992.
Lutwack, Leonard. The Role of Place in Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1984.
Orr, David. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.
Rolston, Holmes, III. Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World. Philadelphia: Temple UP. 1990.
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point
Press, 1990.
Ecofeminist Theory and Criticism
Caldecott, Leonie and Stephanie Leland, eds. Reclaim the Earth: Women
Speak Out for Life on Earth. London: Women's Press, 1983.
Cheney, Jim. "Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology." Environmental Ethics 9 (no.
2: Summer 1987): 115-45.
Gaard, Greta, ed. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. Philadelphia:
Temple UP, 1993.
Griffin, Susan. Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.
Kheel, Marti. "Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology: Reflections on Identity and
Difference." Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San
Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990.
King, Ynestra. "Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/ Culture Dualism." Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990.
Marshall, Ian. "Literal and Metaphoric Harmony with Nature: Ecofeminism
and Harriet Prescott Spofford's 'Circumstance.'" Modern Language Studies
23 (Spring 1993): 48-58.
Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Woman, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1981.
----. "Ecofeminism and Feminist Theory." Reweaving the World: The
Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990.
----. "The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolutions." Environmental
Review 11 (no. 4: Winter 1987): 269-74.
Murphy, Patrick. "Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics, and Literary Practice." Hypatia 6 (Spring 1991) 146-161.
----. "Prolegomenon for an Ecofeminist Dialogics." Feminism, Bakhtin, and
the Dialogic Voice. Eds. Dale Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry. SUNY Press, 1991.
Plant, Judith, ed. Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism. Philadelphia and Santa Cruz, CA: New Society Publishers, 1989.
Plumwood, Val. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London: Routledge, 1993.
Quinby, Lee. "Ecofeminism and the Politics of Resistance." Reweaving the
World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,
1990.
Spretnak, Charlene. States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the
Postmodern Age. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Warren, Karen. "Feminism and Ecology: Making Connections." Environmental
Ethics 9 (no. 1: 1987): 3-20.
Zimmerman, Michael. "Feminism, Deep Ecology, and Environmental Ethics."
Environmental Ethics 9 (Spring 1987): 21-44.
Ecological Theory/Criticism
Applewhite, James. "Postmodernist Allegory and the Denial of Nature."
Kenyon Review new series 11, no. 1 (Winter 1989): 1-17.
----. Seas and Inland Journeys: Landscape and Consciousness from
Wordsworth to Roethke. Athens, GA: U of Georgia Press, 1985.
Bate, Jonathon. Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental
Tradition. London: Routledge, 1991.
Baym, Nina. "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Woman Authors." American Quarterly 33, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 123-39.
Berry, Wendell. "Poetry and Place." Standing by Words. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983.
Bly, Robert. News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980.
Brooks, Paul. Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1980.
Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing,
and the Formation of American Culture. Cambride, MA: Belknap Press of
Harvard UP, 1995.
Campbell, SueEllen. "The Land and Language of Desire: Where Deep Ecology and Poststructuralism Meet." Western American Literature 24 (November 1989): 199-211.
Elder, John C. Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature. Urbana: U of Illinois P. 1985.
Gutierrez, Donald. Subject-Object Relations in Wordsworth and Lawrence. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987.
Haslam, Gerald. "Who Speaks for the Earth? A Course on Literature of the
Environment." English Journal 62 (1973): 42-48.
Herndl, Carl, and Stuart Brown, eds. Green Culture: Rhetorical Analyses of Environmental Discourse. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie, and Jacqueline S. Palmer. Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1992.
Kolodny, Annette. The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontier, 1630 - 1860. Chapel Hill: University of NC Press, 1984.
----. The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American
Life and Letters. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1975.
Knighton, Jos. "Eco-Porn and the Manipulation of Desire." Wild Earth 3 (Spring 1993): 76-78.
Kroeber, Karl. Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. New York: Columbia UP, 1994.
Love, Glen E. "Revaluing Nature: Toward an Ecological Criticism." Western American Literature 25, no. 3 (November 1990): 201-15.
Lutwack, Leonard. The Role of Place in Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1984.
McClintock, James. Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1994.
Rueckert, William. "Into and Out of the Void: Two Essays. I. Boxed in the Void: An Essay on the Late Sixties in America. II. Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism." The Iowa Review 9, no. 1 (Winter 1978): 62-86.
Slovic, Scott. Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1992.
Critiques of/Approaches to Science
Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of
Modern Science. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.
New York: Routledge, 1991. 183-201.
Harding, Sandra. The Science Question in Feminism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflections on Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.
Kellert, Stephen R., and Edward O. Wilson. The Biophilia Hypothesis. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993. 31-41.
Lovelock, James. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. New York: Oxford UP, 1979.
Thompson, William Irwin, ed. Gaia, A Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology. Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1987.
White, Lynn, Jr. "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis." Science 155 (10 March 1967): 1203-1207.
Readers/Writing Anthologies
Anderson, Chris, and Lex Runciman. A Forest of Voices: Reading and Writing
the Environment. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1995. (1-800-433-1279)
Dobson, Andrew, ed. The Green Reader: Essays Toward A Sustainable Society. San Francisco: Mercury, 1991.
Levy, Walter, and Christopher Hallowell. Green Perspectives: Thinking and
Writing about Nature and the Environment. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Morgan, Sarah, and Dennis Okerstrom, eds. The Endangered Earth: Readings for Writers. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1992.
Nash, Roderick Frazier, ed. American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History. 3rd. ed. New York: McGraw, 1990.
Ross, Carolyn. Writing Nature: An Ecological Reader for Writers. New York: St. Martin's, 1995.
Slovic, Scott H., and Terrell F. Dixon, eds. Being in the World: An Environmental Reader for Writers. New York: Macmillan, 1993.
Verburg, Carol J. The Environmental Predicament: Four Issues in Critical Analysis. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1995.
Walker, Melissa, ed. Reading the Environment. New York: Norton, 1994.
Westphal, Dale, and Fred Westphal, eds. Planet in Peril: Essays in
Environmental Ethics. New York: Harcourt, 1994.
Zimmerman, Michael E., J. Baird Callicott, George Sessions, Karen J.
Warren, and John Clark, eds. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights
to Radical Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1993.