Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment and Nature in Literary Modernism
EDITED BY JEREMY DIAPER
Clemson UP, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-949-97985-5
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54594/
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.
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CONTENTS
“Ecocriticism and Modernism”Jeremy Diaper
“Modernism and the Rural Novel”
Dominic Head
“Edith Sitwell: Modernist Experimentation and the Revitalisation of Nature Poetry”
Elizabeth Black
“‘No poetic phantasy / but a biological reality’: The Ecological Visions of H.D.’s Trilogy”
Elizabeth O’Connor
“‘Has it begun to sprout?’: The Ecological Life of Modernist Corpses”
Julia E. Daniel
“Marianne Moore’s Ecopoetics”
Sharla Hutchinson
“Modernism’s Insect Sense”
Rachel Murray
“Eco-consciousness and Eco-poetics in Modernist Writing”
Fiona Becket
“‘The Parched Eviscerate Soil’: Environmental Thought in Eliot’s Poetry and Prose”
Jeremy Diaper
“The Law of Hoes and Rakes”: Wallace Stevens’s Agrarian Poetics
Jasmine McCrory
“‘Grain by grain’: Beckett’s Agripessimism and the Anthropocene”
Caitlin McIntyre
“‘There All The Time Without You’: Modernism and the Anthropocene”
Peter Adkins
Jeremy Diaper has published numerous articles and chapters on T.S. Eliot's agrarianism and the history of the organic husbandry movement. His essays have appeared in Agricultural History, Agricultural History Review, the Journal of the T.S. Eliot Society UK, T.S. Eliot Studies Annual and Literature & History. He recently edited a special issue of Modernist Cultures on "Modernism and the Environment."
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