Reading lists

I am compiling a comprehensive research list for my ecocritical studies. This list includes titles I already have, and some that I am in the process of acquiring. You may find it interesting.

Ecocriticism bibliography


  • Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism & Literature by Richard Kerridge & Neil Sammells.
  • The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.
  • Trees. Woodlands and Western Civilisation by Richard Hayman.
  • Literary Theory: An Anthology Edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan.
  • Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet by Derrick Jenson, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith. Published March 2011.
  • The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock.
  • The Chilling Stars by Henrick Svensmark & Nigel Calder.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing Edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs.
  • The Dialogic Imagination by M. M. Bakhtin.
  • The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism by Lawrence Coupe.
  • Green Perspectives: Thinking and Writing about Nature and the Environment by Walter Levy.
  • Ecology as Politics by Andre Gorz.
  • The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination by Lawrence Buell.
  • Ecocriticism (The New Critical Idiom) by Greg Garrard.
  • Postcolonial Ecocriticism by Helen Tiffin and Graham Huggan.
  • Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocrtical Responsibility by Scott Slovic.
  • Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism edited by Fiona Becket and Terry Gifford.
    Not to mention a variety of other texts, resources, and future publications coming out of OUP or Bath Spa. Notably Greg Garrard's chapter Ecocriticism in This Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory by Oxford Journals 2010.
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