Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment

Author: Kyle BladowPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 1496207564ISBN 13: 978-1496207562Hardcover:ISBN 10: 1496206797ISBN 13: 978-1496206794Scholars of ecocriticism have long tried to articulate emotional relationships to environments. Only recently, however, have they begun to draw on the complex interdisciplinary body of research known as affect theory. Affective Ecocriticism takes as its premise that ecocritical scholarship has much to gain from the rich work on affect and emotion happening within social and cultural theory, geography, psychology, philosophy, queer theory, feminist theory, narratology, and neuroscience, among others. This vibrant and important volume imagines a more affective—and consequently more effective—ecocriticism, as well as a more environmentally attuned affect studies. These interdisciplinary essays model a range of approaches to emotion and affect in considering a variety of primary texts, including short story collections, films, poe