Future Of Environmental Critism

Concluding a trilogy with The Environmental Imagination (1995) and Writing for an Endangered World (2001), Buell (English, Harvard U.) examines what literature and literary criticism and theory have to say about environmental problems and the transformed environmental values, perceptions, and will that are required to address them. He describes and evaluates trends, emphases, and controversies within green literary studies, and projects the genre's future. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Lawrence Buell is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is best known for his two previous books on environmental criticism, The Environmental Imagination (1995) and Writing for an Endangered World (2001). His book on Emerson (2003) was also widely admired.