Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, Hardcover by Garrard, Greg (EDT), Brand New,...

Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, Hardcover by Garrard, Greg (EDT), ISBN 0199742928, ISBN-13 9780199742929, Brand New, Free P&P in the UKThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment. The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels;the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is increasingly recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions; and the subject of ecocriticism has reached a kind of critical mass, both within its Anglo-American heartlands and beyond. From its origins in the study ofAmerican Nature Writing and British Romanticism, ecocriticism has developed along numerous theoretical, historical, cultural and geographical axes, the most contemporary and exciting of which will be represented in the Handbook. The contributors include eminent founders of the field, includingMichael Branch and Richard Kerridge, a number of key 'second-wave' ecocritics, and the best up-and-coming scholars. Topics covered include: Renaissance anxieties about nature; the challenges of representing climate change; the racialization of the environment in the early 20th century; language andthe concept of biosemiotics; and the possibilities for environmental humour.