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Book Review
| The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Edited by Steven Rosendale. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. xxix + 275 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95.
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| The Greening of Literary Scholarship explores a variety of literatures, critical methodologies, and literary theories previously neglected in the field of ecocriticism, and demonstrates fruitful new directions for the future of the discipline. Graduate students and seasoned scholars alike will find this comprehensive collection of thirteen original essays from leading ecocritics a useful and informative tool for their own ecocritical studies and scholarship. While ecocritics generally have tended to define their field in opposition to traditional literary studies, each author in this collection challenges such notions of mutual exclusivity and demonstrates promising new approaches for increasing the connectivity between contemporary literary theory, classical modes of literary scholarship, and the ecocritical enterprise. Readers will benefit from the wide variety of approaches taken in The Greening of Literary Scholarship, ranging from new historicism, postcolonialism, deconstructionism, and poststructuralism, to feminist, Marxist, and psychoanalytic theory, as well as modes of recovery scholarship performed by textual editors. |
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