Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment and Nature in Literary Modernism [Hardcover]

In drawing together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from across the UK and America, Eco-Modernism offers a diverse range of environmental and ecological interpretations of modernist texts and illustrates that ecocriticism can offer fresh and provocative ways of understanding literary modernism.This volume of critical essays provides the first major guide to ecology, environment and nature in literary modernism. It explores the environmental turn and green consciousness in modernist criticism and broadens the boundaries and scope of current ecocritical enquiry. In drawing together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from across the UK and America, Eco-Modernism offers a diverse range of environmental and ecological interpretations of modernist texts and illustrates that ecocriticism can offer fresh and provocative ways of understanding literary modernism. In the rapidly burgeoning field of environmental studies, it will serve as a vital touchstone for scholars and students alike to explore the major areas and crucial themes in ecocritical modernism.Introduction: Eco-Modernism
Jeremy Diaper

Part I Ruralism and Nature

1. Ruralism and Nature
Dominic Head

2. Edith Sitwell: Modernist Experimentation and the Revitalization of Nature Poetry
Elizabeth Black

Part II Ecological Modernisms

3. No poetic phantasy / but a biological reality : The Ecological Visions of H.D.'s Trilogy
Elizabeth O'Connor

4. Modernist Corpses and the Ecology of Burial
Julia E. Daniel

Part III Modernist Ecopoetics

5. Nature, a Diligent Artist: An Ecocentric Reading of Marianne Moore's The Fish
Sharla Hutchinson

6. Modernism's Insect Vision
Rachel Murray

7. Eco-consciousness and Ecopoetics in D. H. Lawrence'sBirds, Beasts and Flowers and Apocalypse
Fiona Becket