Includes bibliographical references and index

Magpie / SueEllen Campbell -- (Im)possibility of ecocriticism / Dominic Head -- Anotherness and inhabitation in recent multicultural American literature / Patrick D. Murphy -- Poetry and biodiversity / Jonathan Bate -- Body politics in American nature writing. 'Who may contest for what the body of nature will be?' / Gretchen Legler -- Acts of God : providence, the Jeremiad and environmental crisis / Barbara White -- Crabbe's disorderly nature / John Lucas -- Wilde nature / Neil Sammells -- Feathered women : W.H. Hudson's Green mansions / N.H. Reeve -- 'Or shall I bring you the sound of poisons?' : Silent spring and Sylvia Plath / Tracy Brain -- Heidegger, Heaney and the problem of dwelling / Greg Garrard -- Small rooms and the ecosystem : environmentalism and DeLillo's White noise / Richard Kerridge -- Ecopolitics and the literature of the borderlands : the frontiers of environmental justice in Latina and Native American writing / M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqeline S. Palmer -- Children's literature and the environment / Karin Lesnik-Oberstein -- Creating the world we must save : the paradox of television nature documentaries / Karla Armbruster