Ecofeminism and Nineteenth-Century Literature

Ecofeminism and Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews
  • Pastoral Ideology
  • Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Reading the Orange
  • Gender and Genre: A New Perspective on Nineteenth-Century Women's Nature Writing
• Criticism: The Local Landscape
  • Pastoral Ambivalence in Emerson and Thoreau
  • Cultivating Desire, Tending Piety: Botanical Discourse in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing
  • ‘A Happy, Rural Seat of Various Views’: The Ecological Spirit in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of Pointed Firs and the Dunnet Landing Stories
  • Landscape in Drag: The Paradox of Feminine Space in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World
  • ‘The Earth Is the Common Home of All’: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Investigations of a Settled Landscape
• Criticism: Travel Writing
  • Margaret Fuller: Recovering Our Mother's Gardens
  • In Suspect Terrain: Mary Wollstonecraft Confronts Mother Nature in Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
  • ‘The First White Women in the Last Frontier’: Writing Race, Gender, and Nature in Alaska Travel Narratives
  • A Preference for Vegetables: The Travel Writings and Botanical Art of Marianne North
• Further Reading