Literature of Nature

Patrick D. Murphy is a professor of English and teaches in the Graduate Program in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Founding editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, he is currently the Art and the Natural Environment section editor for the journal Organization and Environment. Author of Understanding Gary Snyder and Literature, Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques, he has edited and co-edited several other books, including, with Greta Gaard, Ecofeminist Literary Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy. He has recently completed a monograph tentatively titled Farther Afield in Literary Ecology (forthcoming 1999) and is co-editing, with Roberto Forns-Broggi, a special issue of the Hispanic Journal on ecology in Latin American literature.

"This volume is the most comprehensive attempt to map an international review of modern environmental literature ever published in English...One cannot but be impressed by the scholarship that has gone into this work. This is a real baseline book...it will be used for many years." -- Reference Reviews

• Preface, Editor's Note and Guide to Usage, Essays Section 1 : The United States and Canada Section 2: Europe, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, Malta, Russia, Spain, Section 3: Asia and the Pacific, Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, India, Section 4: Africa and the Arab World Section 5: Latin America and the Poles, Brazil, The Caribbean, Latin America, The Arctic, Antarctica, Section 6: Topics, Genres, Theory and Other Arts. Indexes.