Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
About the Book Series
The urgency of the next great extinction impels us to evaluate environmental crises as sociogenic. Critiques of culture have a lot to contribute to the endeavour to remedy crises of culture, drawing from scientific knowledge but adding to it arguments about agency, community, language, technology and artistic expression. This series aims to bring to consciousness potentialities that have emerged within a distinct historical situation and to underscore our actions as emergent within a complex dialectic among the living world.
It is our understanding that studies in literature, culture and media can add depth and sensitivity to the way we frame crises; clarifying how culture is pervasive and integral to human and non-human lives as it is the medium of lived experience. We seek exciting studies of more-than-human entanglements and impersonal ontological infrastructures, slow and public media, and the structuring of interpretation. We seek interdisciplinary frameworks for considering solutions to crises, addressing ambiguous and protracted states such as solastalgia, anthropocene anxiety, and climate grief and denialism. We seek scholars who are thinking through decolonization and epistemic justice for our environmental futures. We seek sensitivity to iterability, exchange and interpretation as wrought, performative acts.
Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media provides accessible material to broad audiences, including academic monographs and anthologies, fictocriticism and studies of creative practices. We invite you to contribute to innovative scholarship and interdisciplinary inquiries into the interactive production of meaning sensitive to the affective circuits we move through as experiencing beings.
Series Editor Tom Bristow has completed research fellowships at Australian National University, University of Melbourne, Durham University, and James Cook University, and is currently honorary fellow at the Centre for History of Emotions at University of Western Australia. Please contact [email protected] for further enquiries and to make a submission to the series
Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene
1st Edition
By Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
June 27, 2025
This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich ...
The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry
1st Edition
By Enaiê Mairê Azambuja
May 06, 2025
This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E.E....
Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens: From Antiquity to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria E. Pagán, Judith W. Page
April 14, 2025
Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film. Throughout the book, each chapter centers the act of ...
Decolonising Pastoral: Semiotic Freedom in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Thomas Bristow
March 31, 2025
This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of pastoral, a genre that has captured the Western imagination for centuries, across literature, art and music. Combining the practices of literary criticism and creative writing, Decolonising Pastoral develops a new series of tools for the ...
Literary Feminist Ecologies of American and Caribbean Expansionism: Errand into the Wilderness
1st Edition
By Christine M. Battista, Melissa R. Sande
November 29, 2024
This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness": the ethic of Puritanical expansionism at the heart of the U.S. empire that moved westward under Manifest Destiny...
Children’s Vegetarian Culture in the Victorian Era: The Juvenile Food Reformers Press and Literary Change
1st Edition
By Marzena Kubisz
September 19, 2024
This book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children's literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children’s vegetarianism and its representations in literature ...
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema
1st Edition
By Robert Geal
September 25, 2023
This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic...
Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place
1st Edition
By Lenka Filipova
May 31, 2023
The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion of place as a way of interrogating the socio-political and environmental pressures that have been ...
Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt, Interpret, Mutate
1st Edition
By Timothy Day
May 31, 2023
Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt brings together research on Shakespeare, biosemiotics, ecocriticism, epigenetics and actor network theory as it explores the space between nature and narrative in an effort to understand how human bodies are stories told in the emergent language of ...
Wild Romanticism
1st Edition
Edited
By Markus Poetzsch, Cassandra Falke
January 09, 2023
Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve scholars, who examine representations of ...
Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Edney, Tess Somervell
November 18, 2022
This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. Together, its chapters demonstrate that georgic—a genre based primarily on two classical poems about farming, Virgil’s Georgics and Hesiod’s Works and Days—has been reworked by writers ...