Selected Bibliography: Nature in American Literature

Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of of American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995.

Clough, Wilson O. The necessary earth; nature and solitude in American literature. Austin: U of Texas P, 1964. PS163 .C6

Coates, Peter. Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.

Cronon, William, ed. Nature Writings. NY: Library of America, 1997.

Elder, John. Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Nature. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.

Foerster, Norman. Nature in American literature; studies in the modern view of nature. NY: Russell & Russell, 1958. PS163 .F6

Foster, Edward H. The civilized wilderness: backgrounds to American romantic literature, 1817-1860. NY: Free P, 1975. PS217 R6 F6

Fussell, Edwin S. Frontier: American literature and the American West. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1965. PS169.W4 F8

Hoffman, Michael J. The subversive vision: American romanticism in literature. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat P, 972. PS217 R6 H6

Holm, Jean, and John Bowker. eds. Attitudes to Nature. NY: Pinter, 1994.

Horwitz, Howard. By the law of nature: form and value in nineteenth-century America. NY: Oxford U P, 1991. PS217 .E35 H67

Huth, Hans. Nature and the American: three centuries of changing attitudes. Berkeley: U of California P, 1957. QH77 .U6 H8

Kolodny, Annette. The lay of the land: metaphor as experience and history in American life and letters. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1975. PS88 K65

Lewis, R. W. B. The American Adam: innocence, tragedy, and tradition in the nineteenth century. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago P, 1955. PS201 .L4

Murphy, Patrick D. ed. Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.

Norwood, Vera. Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1993.

Payne, Daniel G. Voices in the Wilderness: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1996.

Ringe, Donald A. The pictorial mode; space & time in the art of Bryant, Irving & Cooper. Lexington U P of Kentucky 1971. PS201 .R5

Rotella, Guy. Reading and Writing Nature: The Poetry of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1991.

Slovic, Scott. Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1992.

Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin land; the American West as symbol and myth. NY: Vintage Books 1957. F591 .S65

Stewart, Frank. A Natural History of Nature Writing. Washington, DC; Covelo, CA: Island; Shearwater, 1995.

Tichi, Cecelia. New world, new earth: environmental reform in American literature from the Puritans through Whitman. New Haven: Yale U P, 1979. PS169.E25 T5

Wilkins, Thurman. John Muir: Apostle of Nature. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1995.

Zuckert, Catherine H. Natural right and the American imagination political philosophy in novel form. Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. PS374 .P6 Z97

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Auten, Janet G. "Reading/Writing Nature: Teaching with Transcendental Textbooks." CEA-Critic 54.1 (Fall 1991): 62-66.

Ballowe, James. "Loving the World: Nature Writers/Writing." North Dakota Quarterly 60.3 (Sumr 1992): 72-79.

Bennett, Paula. "Late Nineteenth-Century American Women's Nature Poetry and the Evolution of the Imagist Poem." Legacy 9.2 (Fall 1992): 89-103.

Bird, John. "Gauging the Value of Nature: Thoreau and His Woodchucks." The Concord Saunterer 2.1 (Fall 1994): 139-47.

Bryant, Paul T. "Nature as Picture/Nature as Milieu." CEA-Critic 54.1 (Fall 1991): 22-34.

Cason, Jacqueline J. "Nature Writer as Storyteller: The Nature Essay as a Literary Genre." CEA-Critic 54.1 (Fall 1991): 12-18.

Clemmons, Linda M. "'Nature Was Her Lady's Book': Ladies' Magazines, American Indians, and Gender, 1820-1859." American Periodicals 5 (1995): 40-58.

Cooley, John. ed. Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994.

Daniel, Janice B. "'Apples of the Thoughts and Fancies': Nature as Narrator in The Scarlet Letter." American Transcendental Quarterly 7.4 (Dec 1993): 307-19.

Davidson, Mary V. "What We've Missed: Female Romantic Poets and the American Nature Writing Tradition." CEA-Critic 54.1 (Fall 1991): 110-18.

Dvorak, Angeline G. "A Response to Nature: Prelude to Walt Whitman." CEA-Critic 54.1 (Fall 1991): 58-61.

Grusin, Richard. "Thoreau, Extravagance, and the Economy of Nature." American Literary History 5.1 (Sprg 1993): 30-50.

Hall, Dewey W. "From Edwards to Emerson: A Study of the Teleology of Nature." Early Protestantism and American Culture. Ed. Michael Schuldiner. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1995.

Halprin, Lawrence. "Nature into Landscape into Art." Landscape in America. Eds. George F. Thompson and Charles E. Little. Austin: U of Texas P, 1995. 241-50.

| Top | Hilbert, Betsy. ed. "The Literature of Nature." CEA-Critic 54.1 (Fall 1991). Special Edition.

Howarth, William. "Thoreau and the Cultural Construction of Nature." Isle 2.1 (Sprg 1994): 85-89.

Johnston, Paul K. "A Puritan in the Wilderness: Natty Bumppo's Language and American Nature Today." James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art 11 (1997): 60-63.

Jones, Rowena R. "Edwards, Dickinson, and the Sacramentality of Nature." Studies in American Puritan Spirituality 1 (1990): 225-53.

Legler, Gretchen. "Body Politics in American Nature Writing: 'Who May Contest for What the Body of Nature Will Be?'" Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature. Eds. Richard Kerridge and Neil Sammells. London: Zed, 1998. 71-87.

Parekh, Pashpa N. "Nature in the Poetry of E. E. Cummings." Spring 3 (Fall 1994): 63-71.

Quigley, Peter. "Rethinking Resistance: Nature Opposed to Power in Emerson and Melville." West Virginia University Philological Papers 37 (1991): 39-51.

Richardson, Robert D., Jr. "Emerson and Nature." The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ed. Joel Porte. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 97-105.

Ross-Bryant, Lynn. "The Self in Nature: Four American Autobiographies." Soundings 80.1 (Sprg 1997): 83-104.

Ryden, Kent C. "Landscape with Figures: Nature, Folk Culture, and the Human Ecology of American Environmental Writing." Isle 4.1 (Sprg 1997): 1-28.

Schweighauser, Charles A. "'Know Thyself' Study Nature' The Contemporary Scientist's Dilemma." The Delegated Intellect: Emersonian Essays on Literature, Science, and Art in Honor of Don Gifford. Ed. Donald E. Morse. NY: Peter Lang, 1995. 109-24.

Sibum, Heinz O. "The Bookkeeper of Nature: Benjamin Franklin's Electrical Research and the Development of Experimental Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century." Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective. Ed. J. A. Leo Lemay. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1993. 221-42.

Slovic, Scott. "Nature Writing and Environmental Psychology: The Interiority of Outdoor Experience." The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996. 351-70.

St. Armand, Barton L. "The Book of Nature and American Nature Writing: Codex, Index, Contexts, Prospects." Isle 4.1 (Sprg 1997): 29-42.

Tidwell, Paul L. "Academic Campfire Stories: Thoreau, Ecocriticism, and the Fetishism of Nature." Isle 2.1 (Sprg 1994): 53-64.

Ulman, H. Lewis. "Seeing, Believing, Being, and Acting: Ethics and Self-Representation in Ecocriticism and Nature Writing." Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment. Eds. Michael P. Branch et al. Moscow, ID: U of Idaho P, 1998. 225-33.

Westling, Louise. "Thoreau's Ambivalence toward Mother Nature." Isle 1.1 (Sprg 1993): 145-50.

Wilson, R. Jackson. "Emerson's Nature: A Materialistic Reading." Subject to History: Ideology, Class, Gender. Ed. David Simpson. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991. 119-42.

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Bennett, Michael, and David W. Teague. eds. The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1999.

Branch, Michael P. "Ecocritics and Earth Warriors: An Interview with David B. Morris." Isle 4.2 (Fall 1997): 61-70.

Branch, Michael P., et al. eds. Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment. Moscow: U of Idaho P, 1998.  

Buell, Lawrence. "The Ecocritical Insurgency." New Literary History 30.3 (Sumr 1999): 699-712.

Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm. eds. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.

Hitt, Christopher. "Toward an Ecological Sublime." New Literary History 30.3 (Sumr 1999): 603-23.

Howarth, Bill. "Literature of Place, Environmental Writers." Isle 1.1 (Sprg 1993): 167-78.

Howarth, William. "Ego or Eco Criticism? Looking for Common Ground." Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment. Eds. Michael P. Branch et al. Moscow, ID: U of Idaho P, 1998. 3-8.

Howarth, William. "Imagined Territory: The Writing of Wetlands." New Literary History 30.3 (Sumr 1999): 509-39.

Kerridge, Richard, and Neil Sammells. eds. Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature. London: Zed, 1998.

Love, Glen A. "Ecocriticism and Science: Toward Consilience?" New Literary History 30.3 (Sumr 1999): 561-76.

Malamud, Randy. Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity. NY: New York UP, 1998.

McGurl, Mark. "Green Ideas Sleep Furiously: Andrew Ross on Ecocriticism." Lingua Franca 5.1 (Nov-Dec 1994): 57-60, 62, 64-65.

Mendelson, Donna. "'Transparent Overlay Maps': Layers of Place Knowledge in Human Geography and Ecocriticism." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 1.1 (Fall 1999): 81-96.

Newman, Lance. "The Politics of Ecocriticism." Review 20 (1998): 59-72.

Phillips, Dana. "Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology." New Literary History 30.3 (Sumr 1999): 577-602.

Tucker, Herbert F. "Ecocriticism.' New Literary History 30.3 (Sumr 1999). Special Edition.

| Top | Selected Bibliography: Ecofeminism

Bigwood, Carol. Earth muse: feminism, nature, and art. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993. BD311 .B494

Diamond, Irene. Fertile ground: women, earth, and the limits of control. Boston: Beacon P, 1994. HQ1233 .D5

Diamond, Irene, and Gloria Orenstein. eds. Reweaving the world: the emergence of ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990. HQ1233 .R46

Ferry, Luc. The new ecological order. Trans. Carol Volk. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. GF21 .F4813

Gaard, Greta C. ed. Ecofeminism: women, animals, nature. Philadelphia: Temple U P, 1993. HQ1233 .E26

Merchant, Carolyn. Earthcare: women and the environment. NY: Routledge, 1996. HQ1233 .M46

Merchant, Carolyn. Radical ecology: the search for a livable world. NY: Routledge, 1992. QH540.5 .M48

Norwood, Vera. Made from this earth: American women and nature. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1993. QH26 .N67

Warren, Karen. ed. Ecological feminism. NY: Routledge, 1994. HQ1233 .E28

Zimmerman, Michael E. Contesting earth's future: radical ecology and postmodernity. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994. GE195 .Z56

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