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List of illustrations | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction: the challenge | |
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Anthropocentrism | |
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The literary and cultural criticism | |
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A crisis of the 'natural' | |
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The natures of nature | |
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A reading | |
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First quandary: climate change | |
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Romantic and anti-romantic | |
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Old world romanticism | |
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Romantic ecology | |
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The self-evidence of the natural? | |
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The inherent greenness of the literary? | |
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A reading: the case of John Clare | |
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Deep ecology | |
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New world romanticism | |
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A reading: retrieving Walden | |
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Wild | |
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Genre and the question of non-fiction | |
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'You don't make it up' | |
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Fiction or non-fiction? | |
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An aesthetic consumerism | |
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A reading: genres and the projection of animal subjectivity | |
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Second quandary: fiction or non-fiction? | |
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Language beyond the human? | |
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A realist poetics | |
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The Spell of the Sensuous | |
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Third quandary: how human-centred is given language? | |
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The inherent violence of western thought? | |
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The archetypal eco-fascist? | |
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The forest | |
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Post-humanism and the 'end of nature'? | |
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A reading: Frankenstein | |
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Ecology without nature? | |
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The boundaries of the political | |
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Fourth quandary: the crisis of legitimation | |
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Thinking like a mountain? | |
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The aesthetic | |
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Fifth quandary: what isn't an environmental issue? | |
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Environmental justice and the move 'beyond nature writing' | |
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Social ecology | |
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A reading: A River Runs Through It | |
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Environmental criticism as cultural history? | |
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Sixth quandary: the antinomy of environmental criticism | |
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Two readings: European ecojustice | |
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Liberalism and green moralism | |
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The limits of liberal criticism | |
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A reading: William and Dorothy Wordsworth | |
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Seventh quandary: the rights of the yet-to-be-born | |
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Ecofeminism | |
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An �criture ecofemine? | |
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'Nature provides us with few givens' | |
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'Post-colonial' ecojustice | |
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Environmentalism as neocolonialism? | |
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Is there yet a specifically environmental post-colonial criticism? | |
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Colonialism as the 'Conquest of nature' | |
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A reading: Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide | |
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Eighth quandary: overpopulation | |
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Questions of scale: the local, the national and the global | |
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Methodological nationalism | |
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Literary 'reinhabitation'? | |
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Questions of scale | |
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Ecopoetry | |
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Science and the struggle for intellectual authority | |
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Science and the crisis of authority | |
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The disenchantment thesis | |
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Facts versus values? a reading, Annie Dillard's 'Galapagos' | |
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The 'naturalistic fallacy' | |
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Against the facts-values split | |
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Ecology, 'ecology' and literature | |
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Hubert Zapf, Literature as Cultural Ecology | |
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Science studies | |
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Studying science as a kind of behaviour | |
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The Selfish Gene | |
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Donna Haraway | |
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Ninth quandary: constructivism and doing justice to non-human agency | |
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Evolutionary theories of literature | |
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The Standard Social Science Model | |
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Literature and human nature | |
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Interdisciplinarity and science: two essays on human evolution | |
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Tenth quandary: the challenge of scientific illiteracy | |
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The animal mirror | |
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Eleventh quandary: animal suffering versus ecological managerialism | |
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Ethics and the non-human animal | |
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'Kiss goodbye to the idea that humans are qualitatively different from other animals' | |
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Human-animal | |
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Twelfth quandary: reading the animal as 'construct' | |
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Anthropomorphism | |
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An art of animal interpretation | |
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A reading: The Wind in the Pylons | |
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The future of ecocriticism? | |
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Final brief quandary: what place environmental criticism in the modern 'University of Excellence'? | |
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Notes | |
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Further reading | |
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Index | |