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Critical Insights: Nature and the Environment

Table of Contents

Table of Contents: Critical Insights: Nature and the Environment




About This Volume




On Nature and the Environment




Thoreau and American Environmentalism: A Study in Critical Reception




Pastoral, Antipastoral, and Postpastoral as Reading Strategies




Environmental Wisdom in Two Mexican American Novels: An Ecocritical Reading of . . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Him and Bless Me, Ultima




Original Nature: Buddhism and American Nature Writing




Wordsworth as Environmental “Nature” Writer




Walt Whitman, the Ecological Poet




The Return to the Primitive: Evolution, Atavism, and Socialism in Jack London’s The Call of the Wild




Cultivation, Progress, or Conservation: Conflicting Impulses in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and A Lost Lady




The Need of Being Versed in Natural Things: Robert Frost and Nature




Natural History in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and Other Works




John Steinbeck’s Environmental Evolution




Robinson Jeffers, Environmental Consciousness, and the Poetics of Nature




“Call me a ranger”: Edward Abbey and the Exploratory Voice of Desert Solitaire1




Loyalty to Place and Land Stewardship as Ecological Good Work in Wendell Berry’s The Memory of Old Jack




Reciprocal Spirituality: Human/Animal Interface in Linda Hogan’s Multiple Genres




Prodigal Summer: A Narrative Ecosystem1




A Natural Alliance: Blending Nature Literature and Outdoor Education in the Integrated Outdoor Program




Additional Works on Nature and the Environment




General Bibliography




About the Editor




Contributors