Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Theoretical Approaches -- 1 After 'Organic Community': Ecocriticism, Nature, and Human Nature -- 2 Beyond 2000: Raymond Williams and the Ecocritic's Task -- 3 Ecofeminism in Literary Studies -- 4 Towards a Post-Pastoral View of British Poetry -- 5 Postmodern Ecocriticism in the Science Fiction Novel: J.G. Ballard and Ken Kesey -- 6 Cosmos as Metaphor: Eco-spiritual Poetics -- 7 Narratives of Resignation: Environmentalism in Recent Fiction -- 8 Ecotopian Fiction and the Sustainable Society -- Part 2 Historical Approaches -- 9 Making the Rocks Disappear: Refocusing Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales -- 10 The Commodious Ark: Nature's Voice in Early Modern Poetry -- 11 'Founded on the Affections' : A Romantic Ecology -- 12 Was there a Victorian Ecology? -- 13 Letting in the Sky: An Ecofeminist Reading of Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction -- 14 Reversing the Fall: The Sense of Place in D.H. Lawrence -- 15 Twentieth-Century Rural Poets of Britain and Ireland: Ecological Voices from the Geographical and Cultural Margins -- Ecocriticism: An Annotated Bibliography -- Index