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Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism Series

45 primary works • 45 total works
Under the Sign of Nature is devoted to the publication of high-quality works of critical inquiry and narrative scholarship in environmental literature and related areas. The series encompasses scholarly monographs, trade books, anthologies, readers, and selected paperback reprints of classic works. Innovative interdisciplinary projects characterize…
Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail
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3.71 · 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 2 editions
Many hikers on the Appalachian Trail take books as…

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    Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2000 · 4 editions
    In the 1990s, the emerging field of ecocriticism--…

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    Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2000 · 4 editions
    Many poets writing after World War II have found t…

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    Nature Fakers: Wildlife, Science, and Sentiment
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    3.80     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1990 · 5 editions
    In 1903 John Burroughs published an Atlantic Month…

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    Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism)
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    3.96     · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded d…

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    Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography
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    3.00     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of inte…

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    The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2001 · 2 editions
    From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has…

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    Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2002 · 2 editions
    One of the most vexing problems facing American mo…

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    Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2002 · 5 editions
    The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Ch…

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    Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need (Under the Sign of Nature)
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    3.00     · 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2003 · 4 editions
    Nature’s ability to satisfy deep human needs is fa…

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    Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment
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    3.56     · 16 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 2 editions
    Practical Ecocriticism is the first book to ground…

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    Lines on the Land: Writers, Art, and the National Parks
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2004 · 4 editions
    The nineteenth-century photographer William Henry …

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    Mary Austin's Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2004 · 1 edition
    Best known for The Land of Little Rain, a collecti…

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    Eco-Man: New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature
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    2.83     · 6 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 3 editions
    The paradoxical role nature plays in American myth…

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    Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · published 2004 · 3 editions
    Although the British romantic poets--notably, Blak…

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    Westernness: A Meditation
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 2 editions
    A first-person meditation on the literary and visu…

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    Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770–1870
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    0.00     · published 2007 · 3 editions
    Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural hi…

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    Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land
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    4.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 2 editions
    In western culture, the separation of humans from …

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    Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · published 2010 · 7 editions
    The essays in this collection make a contribution …

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    Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 4 editions
    Postcolonial Green brings together scholarship bri…

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    Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches
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    3.86     · 7 Ratings · published 2011 · 8 editions
    One of the more frequently lodged, serious, and ju…

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    William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: The Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · published 2012 · 4 editions
    In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorshi…

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    Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2006 · 5 editions
    "Set aside your Bella Tuscanys and Year in Provenc…

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    Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    Often thought of as the quintessential home or the…

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    Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction
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    3.99     · 71 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2011 · 6 editions
    We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth gr…

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    Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · published 2014 · 5 editions
    Engaging important discussions about social confli…

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    Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
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    4.44     · 16 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    The calamitous impacts of climate change that are …

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    Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
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    3.77     · 60 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have trans…

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    Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2015 · 3 editions
    In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James …

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    The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf
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    4.18     · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2016 · 4 editions
    The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most v…

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    "The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    4.33     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important f…

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    Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · 3 editions
    In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the …

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    Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
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    4.21     · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopo…

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    Shakespeare's Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration
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    4.17     · 12 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 3 editions
    Study of the sea--both in terms of human interacti…

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    Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
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    2.33     · 3 Ratings · 3 editions
    Bringing together new writing by some of the field…

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    Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature
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    4.23     · 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an on…

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    Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · 3 editions
    Shortlisted for the Best Book Prize from the Briti…

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    Of Land, Bones, and Money: Toward a South African Ecopoetics
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · 3 editions
    The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral…

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    New Woman Ecologies: From Arts and Crafts to the Great War and Beyond
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2019 · 3 editions
    A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth …

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    Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · 3 editions
    In the past thirty years biodiversity has become o…

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    Magnificent Decay: Melville and Ecology
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · 3 editions
    What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated…

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    Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene
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    3.60     · 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 3 editions
    A hierarchical model of human societies’ relations…

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    Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · published 2021 · 2 editions
    What makes trash trash? How do we decide what to t…

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    Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 3 editions
    The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified…

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    Toxic Matters: Narrating Italy’s Dioxin
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 3 editions
    In Toxic Matters, Monica Seger considers two Itali…

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