Literature and the Environment

Stephanie LeMenager is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor in English and American Literature and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, USA. She is co-founder (with Stephanie Foote) of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities and her previous books include Living Oil: Petroleum and Culture in the American Century (2014).Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is the author of Hope At Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (2015).

A rich and varied teaching resource. It offers a valuable assortment of papers that can be drawn on for courses in the environmental humanities.

• VOLUME 1: FIELD GENEALOGIES —NETWORKS AND TRAJECTORIESAcknowledgmentsGeneral IntroductionVolume Introduction: Field GenealogiesPART I A WORD FOR NATUREPART II DECOLONIZING THE ARCHIVEPART III MATERIALISMS, OLD AND NEWVOLUME 2: WHY LITERATURE? LITERATURE AS ECOLOGICAL FORCEAcknowledgmentsVolume Introduction: Why Literature?PART I FIELD VISIONSPART II EXEMPLARY READINGSPART III AN APPENDIX OF PRIMARY TEXTSVOLUME 3: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONVERSATIONS —FROM ECOCRITICISM TO POST-HUMANITIESAcknowledgmentsVolume Introduction: Interdisciplinary ConversationsPART I CONVERSATIONS WITH THE NATURAL SCIENCES: FROM CONSILIENCE TO TRANSCORPOREALITYPART II CONVERSATIONS WITH PHILOSOPHY: FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO OOOPART III CONVERSATIONS WITH MEDIA STUDIES: FROM CINEMA TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTUREVOLUME 4: FIELD CONTEXTSAcknowledgmentsVolume Introduction: Field ContextsPART I BREAKING GROUND: FOUNDATIONAL INFLUENCES FROM BEYOND THE FIELDPART II JUSTICE MATTERSPART III WRITING ACTIVISM