Michael P Branch

Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and the Environment Michael P Branch

Marc Notes: Available in cloth at $ 50.00 Paper publication abandoned. Publisher Marketing: Ecocriticism is a scholarly approach to literature that is rapidly building momentum and legitimacy because of its usefulness as a means of inquiry into the relationship between human culture and the nonhuman world. This title suggests the importance and passion of this scholarly enterprise. Contributor Bio:  Branch, Michael P Michael P. Branch is a professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is editor of John Muir's Last Journey and coeditor of The ISLE Reader (Georgia), Reading the Earth, and The Height of Our Mountains. Contributor Bio:  Slovic, Scott SCOTT SLOVIC is Professor of Literature and Environment and chair of the graduate program in literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of numerous articles on eco-criticism and has authored or edited ten books including "The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticsm, 1993-2003". Contributor Bio:  Patterson, Daniel Patterson is a professor of English at California State University, San Bernardina. Contributor Bio:  Johnson, Rochelle Rochelle L. Johnson is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at the College of Idaho and immediate past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). She is the coeditor, with Daniel Patterson, of two volumes of Susan Fenimore Cooper's writings--Rural Hours and Essays on Nature and Landscape--as well as a collection of scholarly essays, Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works (all published by Georgia).