Alexander Menrisky is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature and Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology.

• Introduction: American Environmental LiteratureChapter 1: Early Genres of American LandscapeChapter 2: The Wilderness Ideal: A Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 3: The Nature Writing TraditionChapter 4: The Advent of Ecology: A Second Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 5: Environmental Justice: A Third Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 6: (Anthropo)cene: A Fourth Paradigm in a Climate-Changed WorldChapter 7: Contemporary Environmental Topics in American Poetry and ProseConclusion

Alexander Menrisky is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature and Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology.

• Introduction: American Environmental LiteratureChapter 1: Early Genres of American LandscapeChapter 2: The Wilderness Ideal: A Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 3: The Nature Writing TraditionChapter 4: The Advent of Ecology: A Second Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 5: Environmental Justice: A Third Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 6: (Anthropo)cene: A Fourth Paradigm in a Climate-Changed WorldChapter 7: Contemporary Environmental Topics in American Poetry and ProseConclusion

Alexander Menrisky is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature and Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology.

• Introduction: American Environmental LiteratureChapter 1: Early Genres of American LandscapeChapter 2: The Wilderness Ideal: A Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 3: The Nature Writing TraditionChapter 4: The Advent of Ecology: A Second Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 5: Environmental Justice: A Third Paradigm for American Environmental RepresentationChapter 6: (Anthropo)cene: A Fourth Paradigm in a Climate-Changed WorldChapter 7: Contemporary Environmental Topics in American Poetry and ProseConclusion