THE GREEN STUDIES READER IS A FANTASTICALLY COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION OF CRITICAL TEXTS WHICH ADDRESS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ECOLOGY, CULTURE AND LITERATURE. IT OFFERS A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GROWING AREA OF ECOCRITICISM. THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THIS FIELD ARE COVERED IN DEPTH, SUCH AS: -- ROMANTIC ECOLOGY AND ITS LEGACY -- THE EARTH, MEMORY AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY -- NATURE/CULTURE/GENDER -- ECOCRITICAL PRINCIPLES -- ENVIRONMENTAL LITERARY HISTORY -- THE NATURE OF THE TEXT APPEARING IN THE COLLECTION ARE EXTRACTS FROM TODAY'S LEADING ECOCRITICS AS WELL AS FIGURES FROM THE PAST WHO PIONEERED A GREEN APPROACH TO LITERATURE AND CULTURE. AS A WHOLE THE READER ENCOURAGES A REASSESSMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICISM AND OFFERS A RADICAL PROSPECT FOR ITS FUTURE. THE BOOK INCLUDES EXTRACTS FROM: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, HENRY DAVID THOREAU, JOHN RUSKIN, WILLIAM MORRIS, VIRGINIA WOOLF, D. H. LAWRENCE, THEODOR ADORNO, MARTIN HEIDEGGER, RAYMOND WILLIAMS, THEODORE ROSZAK, CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD, JONATHAN BATE, KATE SOPER, GARY SNYDER, TERRY GIFFORD, LOUISE WESTLING, RICHARD KERRIDGE, AND JHAN HOCHMAN.