This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism.

Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the environmental humanities. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis.

Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how lite

From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.