Table of Contents:
  • Critical contexts. Thoreau and American environmentalism: a study in critical reception / Richard J. Schneider
  • Pastoral, anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral as reading strategies / Terry Gifford
  • Environmental wisdom in two Mexican American novels: an ecocritical reading of And the Earth did not devour him and Bless me / Priscilla Solis Ybarra
  • Original nature: Buddhism and American nature writing / David Landis Barnhill
  • Wordsworth as environmental "nature" writer / Ashton Nichols
  • Critical readings. Walt Whitman, the ecological poet / Jimmie Killingsworth
  • The return to the primitive: evolution, atavism, and socialism in Jack London's The call of the wild / Tina Gianquitto
  • Cultivation, progress, or conservation: conflicting impulses in Willa Cather's O pioneers! and A lost lady / Matthias Schubnell
  • The need of being versed in natural things: Robert Frost and nature / Robert Bernard Hass
  • Natural history in Hemingway's The old man and the sea and other works / Bert Bender
  • John Steinbeck's environmental evolution / Brian Railsback
  • Robinson Jeffers, environmental consciousness, and the poetics of nature / David J. Rothman
  • "Call me a ranger": Edward Abbey and the exploratory voice of Desert solitaire / David Copland Morris
  • Loyalty to place and land stewardship as ecological good work in Wendell Berry's The memory of Old Jack / Wes Berry
  • Reciprocal spirituality: human/animal interface in Linda Hogan's multiple genres / Barbara J. Cook
  • Prodigal summer: a narrative ecosystem / Priscilla Leder
  • A natural alliance: blending nature literature and outdoor education in the integrated outdoor program / Jeff Hess.