The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature (Routledge Introductions to American Literature)

The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse writers in the United States have represented the nonhuman world and human relationships with it from before the nation’s founding to the present.Providing a concise introduction to ongoing trends and debates in literary environmentalism and the study of environmental representation, this accessible volume also covers a variety of topics, including:• the transatlantic and transnational origins of American environmental literature• the development of the American wilderness ideal in nineteenth-century literature• the American nature writing tradition• the rise of ecological science and literary responses to it• the environmental justice movement and its literary expression• climate change and the emergence of climate fiction• ecopoetry and ecopoeticsThrough readings of texts by authors such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Edward Ab