EJ/CJ ARCHIVE 4: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene
From the 19th Century Beginnings …
1839. Caroline Matilda Kirkland, A New Home, Who’ll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life. See also this short biography and two additional essays by Kirkland, Insect Life (1839) and Harvest Musings (1842)
1854. Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
1864. George Marsh, Man and Nature.
1893. Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (book).
1893. Frederick Jackson Turner, On the Significance of the Frontier in American History (paper).
1903. Mary Hunter Austin, A Land of Little Rain.
1911. John Muir, My first summer in the Sierra.
1916. John Muir, A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf.
1949. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac.
1962. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.
1967. Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind.
1967. Lynn White, The Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis.
1972. Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
1974. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim and Tinker’s Creek.
1973. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City.
1989. Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies.
1989. Roderick Nash, The Rights of Nature.
1996. Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination.
1996. The ECO-CRITICISM READER, edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm.
1999. Dana Phillips, Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology.
… to 21st Century Ecocritism, CLI-FI, and beyond.
2002. Jacques Derrida, The animal that therefore I am (more to follow).
2003. Lorraine Anderson, ed., Sisters of the Earth.
2004. David Naguib Pellow, Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago.
2005. Lawrence Buell, The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and the Literary Imagination.
2005. David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle, eds.. Power, Justice and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement.
2007. David Naguib Pellow, Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice.
2008. Ken Hiltner, Renaissance Ecology: Imagining Eden in Milton’s England.
2009. Richard Widick, Trouble in the Forest, California’s Redwood Timber Wars.
2010. Ken Hiltner, Milton and Ecology.
2011. Ken Hiltner, What Else is Pastoral? Renaissance Literature and the Environment.
2011. Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times.
2013. David Naguib Pellow, The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden.
2014. David Naguib Pellow, Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement.
2014. Ken Hiltner, Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader.
2017. David Naguib Pellow, What is Critical Environmental Justice?
2017. David Ciplet and J. Timmons Roberts, Climate Change and the Transition to Neoliberal Environmental Governance.