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about this catalog

UGA Press has a long tradition of publishing books about nature and the environment. A rich variety of work has been published over the years, ranging from books of philosophy that are internationally focused to field guides of the Southeast to narrative writing that is both personal and universal.

This paperless catalog features almost 150 titles divided into five major subject areas: ecocriticism, environmental history, field guides, nature writing & trade nonfiction, and philosophy & ethics. PDFs are available of the entire catalog and of each section separately. Each section has a separate author index. An order form is also included.

If you have questions contact

John McLeod jmcleod@ugapress.uga.edu 706-369-6158

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Branch, Michael P., ed. • The ISLE Reader 4 • Reading the Roots 5

Cooper, Susan Fenimore • Essays on Nature and Landscape 5 • Rural Hours 5

Elder, John • Imagining the Earth 10 Finseth, Ian Frederick • Shades of Green 6 Fromm, Harold, ed. • The Ecocriticism Reader 4 Gianquitto, Tina • “Good Observers of Nature” 6 Gifford, Terry • Reconnecting with John Muir 9 Glotfelty, Cheryll, ed. • The Ecocriticism Reader 4 Handley, George B. • New World Poetics 10 Johnson, Rochelle, ed. • Essays on Nature and Landscape 5

• Rural Hours 5 • Susan Fenimore Cooper 6

Mazel, David• American Literary Environmentalism 4 Mazel, David, ed. • A Century of Early Ecocriticism 4 McMurry, Andrew • Environmental Renaissance 8 Myers, Jeffrey • Converging Stories 7 Packer, Barbara L. • The Transcendentalists 8 Patterson, Daniel, ed. • Essays on Nature and Landscape 5

• Rural Hours 5 • Susan Fenimore Cooper 6

Philippon, Daniel J. • Conserving Words 8 Rasula, Jed • This Compost 10 Rossi, William, ed. • “Wild Apples” and Other Natural History Essays 9 Schweninger, Lee • Listening to the Land 7 Slovic, Scott, ed. • The ISLE Reader 4 Thoreau, Henry David • “Wild Apples” and Other Natural History Essays 9 Warren, James Perrin • John Burroughs and the Place of Nature 9 Westling, Louise H. • The Green Breast of the New World 7

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The Ecocriticism ReaderLandmarks in Literary EcologyEdited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm

“If you are wondering what ecocriticism is, how it has evolved, why it is important to literary studies, or how to do it, you must read this book. . . . Whether you are a teacher, scholar, theo-rist, reader, explorer, or enthusiast of literature and nature, you will be stimulated and chal-lenged by the journey these essays lead you on.”—ISLE

456 pp.Paper, $22.95y | 1781-6

A Century of Early EcocriticismEdited by David Mazel

“Mazel brings together influential scholars and nature writers from 1864 to 1964 whose ideas led to the now burgeoning academic field of ecocriticism. Mazel supplements these essays, written by authors such as D. H. Lawrence, Mary Woolley and Mark Van Doren, with informa-tive and entertaining biographical information.” —E: The Environmental Magazine

384 pp.Paper, $25.00y | 2222-3

Unjacketed cloth, $50.00y | 2221-6

American Literary EnvironmentalismDavid Mazel

“A major new study in ecocritical theory. It is tightly reasoned, sophisticated, and consistently insightful.”—Louise Westling, author of The Green Breast of the New World

“Mazel has opened up the ecocritical conversation. . . . His inspiration derives less from Thoreau and John Muir and more from Judith Butler and poststructuralist theory; an ambi-tious and provocative study results.”—American Literature

224 pp.Cloth, $40.00y | 2180-6

The ISLE ReaderEcocriticism, 1993–2003Edited by Michael P. Branch and Scott Slovic

Gathers nineteen of the most representative and defining essays from the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment over the course of its first ten years.

“If ecocriticism has become a household word in academe, as I believe it has, the credit mostly goes to ASLE and its journal.”—Western American Literature

384 pp. | 9 photosPaper, $24.95s | 2517-0

Unjacketed cloth, $49.95y | 2516-3

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Reading the RootsAmerican Nature Writing before WaldenEdited by Michael P. Branch

“This is a major work of ecocriticism that will open up a new area of scholarship and catch the interest of many scholars and general readers beyond ecocritics.” —Ian Marshall, author of Peak Experiences

“Serves up a fecund compendium of non-fiction treatments of the American environment . . . a lively and engaging anthology of responses to the New World landscape.” —Environment and History

440 pp. | 1 photo Paper, $24.95s | 2548-4

Unjacketed cloth, $54.95y | 2547-7

Essays on Nature and LandscapeSusan Fenimore CooperEdited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel PattersonForeword by John Elder

Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813–1894), though often overshadowed by her celebrity father, James Fenimore Cooper, has recently become recognized as a pioneer of American nature writing and an early advocate for ecological sustainability. This collection of ten pieces represents her most accomplished nature writing and the fullest articulation of her environmental principles.

168 pp.Paper, $19.95s | 2422-7

Unjacketed cloth, $45.00s | 2421-0

Rural HoursSusan Fenimore CooperEdited and with an introduction by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson

This is one of the earliest pieces of American nature writing and the first by a woman. This new edition, the only printing of the full original text since 1876, restores passages excised by the author for an 1887 edition.

“An engagingly, astutely, sensitively, and eloquently written work by the first really significant American woman nature writer.”—Lawrence Buell, author of The Environmental Imagination

376 pp. | 1 b&w illus. figurePaper, $26.95s | 2000-7

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Susan Fenimore CooperNew Essays on Rural Hours and Other WorksEdited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel PattersonForeword by Lawrence Buell

“Cooper’s several other contributions to the archive of nature writing, like Rural Hours, show striking observational powers along with a rich command of natural history, especially botany and ornithology. . . . All in all, the collection is full of variety and insight.”—Nina Baym, ISLE

320 pp.Cloth, $45.00s | 2326-8

“Good Observers of Nature”American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885Tina Gianquitto

Gianquitto considers a range of women’s nature writing, focusing on four writers and their most influential works: Almira Phelps (Familiar Lectures on Botany, 1829), Margaret Fuller (Summer on the Lakes, in 1843), Susan Fenimore Cooper (Rural Hours, 1850), and Mary Treat (Home Studies in Nature, 1885).

“Scholars of literature, the history of science, and women’s studies will all gain much from this well-informed and wide-ranging study.” —Laura Dassow Walls, author of Emerson’s Life in Science

232 pp. | 8 b&w photosPaper, $19.95s | 2919-2

Unjacketed cloth, $59.95y | 2918-5

Shades of GreenVisions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770–1860Ian Frederick Finseth

“Finseth’s attention to the convergence of antebellum views of slavery and rising appreciation of the sociopolitical import of the natural world (what we have come nowadays to call ‘ecocriticism’) provides a unique and welcome new departure in the study of slavery and abolitionism.”—Eric J. Sundquist, author of Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820–1865

320 pp.Cloth, $39.95s | 2865-2

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Listening to the LandNative American Literary Responses to the LandscapeLee Schweninger

“This is the best book on the land ethic of Native American writers. Schweninger incisively describes the complexities of the concepts of Native Americans’ relationship to the land as depicted by both Natives and non-Natives. His perceptive analyses illuminate the works of Vine Deloria Jr.; Louise Erdrich; Linda Hogan; John Joseph Mathews; Louis Owens; N. Scott Momaday; and Gerald Vizenor.” —LaVonne Ruoff, Professor Emerita of English, University of Illinois, Chicago

256 pp.Paper, $19.95s | 3059-4 Cloth, $59.95y | 3058-7

The Green Breast of the New WorldLandscape, Gender, and American FictionLouise H. Westling

“[A] tightly unified work of ecofeminism . . . Belongs on the shelf next to Kolodny’s The Lay of the Land and The Land before Her, Slotkin’s Regeneration through Violence, Oelschlaeger’s The Idea of Wilderness, and Lewis’s The American Adam.”—American Literature

224 pp.Paper, $17.95s | 2080-9

Converging StoriesRace, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American LiteratureJeffrey Myers

“The focus in Myers’s work on the nineteenth century is an important one indeed for ecocriti-cism and makes a sorely needed contribution to the field, especially as it recovers the notion of ‘ecocentricity’ as a stance that requires environmentalists to view social justice as insepa-rable from their traditional concerns.” —Joni Adamson, author of American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism

200 pp.Cloth, $39.95s | 2744-0

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Conserving WordsHow American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental MovementDaniel J. Philippon

A look at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized im-portant environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First!

“A valuable overview of the development of Progressive-era conservation and modern-day environmentalism.”—Science

392 pp. | 6 photosPaper, $22.95s | 2759-4

Environmental RenaissanceEmerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of NatureAndrew McMurry

“But what, really, does ecocriticism do? In this smart, witty, angry, and hopeful book, McMurry pursues this question through systems theory and postmodern science studies. Emerson and Thoreau, he shows, are more relevant today than ever, never more so than in their—and our—necessary blindnesses. Can ecocriticism really help us through our pending ecological reckoning? Just maybe, answers McMurry, if ecocriticism begins to worry less about nature and more about environment.”—Laura Dassow Walls, author of Emerson’s Life in Science

288 pp.Cloth, $39.95s | 2530-9

The TranscendentalistsBarbara L. Packer

“This is simply the best contemporary account of Transcendentalism that we have.” —Robert N. Hudspeth, editor of The Letters of Margaret Fuller

“Packer’s is the only attempt to study and evaluate the movement as a whole. Particularly good are her discussions of the religious, literary, and philosophical aspects of Transcenden-talism; her discussion of the Transcendentalists’ responses to slavery is a gem.” —Joel Myerson, coeditor of The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

320 pp.Paper, $22.95s | 2958-1

Unjacketed cloth, $49.95y | 2957-4new

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John Burroughs and the Place of NatureJames Perrin Warren

“Despite the rise of contemporary ecocriticism, until now John Burroughs has remained the most neglected and least understood major figure in the history of U.S. nature writing. Warren handsomely redresses this imbalance in his wise and deeply informed unpacking of the com-plexities of Burroughs’s relations with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and espe-cially John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt.” —Lawrence Buell, author of The Environmental Imagination

280 pp. | 28 photosCloth, $39.95s | 2788-4

Reconnecting with John MuirEssays in Post-Pastoral PracticeTerry Gifford

“A fascinating look at the discourses of environment from the perspective of a British teacher, critic, mountaineer, and poet. Gifford’s Muir is more interesting and varied than the Muir Americans have been creating: Gifford’s Muir is a Scot, writing in the context of a British tradi-tion of aesthetics and mountaineering.” —Michael P. Cohen, author of The Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness

216 pp.Cloth, $39.95s | 2796-9

“Wild Apples” and Other Natural History EssaysHenry David ThoreauEdited by William Rossi

Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist—all emerge in this distinc-tive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists.

“A welcome release for Thoreau readers and scholars . . . The issues Rossi engages still burn, as does Thoreau’s extravagant rhetoric.”—ISLE

272 pp.Paper, $19.95s | 2413-5

Unjacketed cloth, $45.00s | 2412-8

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Imagining the EarthPoetry and the Vision of NatureSecond editionJohn Elder

To show us the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it, Elder uses numerous examples of works by Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, A. R. Ammons, Denise Levertov, and William Everson.

“An insightful study of contemporary American nature poetry and its precursors, tracing a recurring pattern of estrangement, transformation, and reintegration that enacts a circuit of healing.”— Cheryll Glotfelty, University of Nevada, Reno

264 pp.Paper, $19.95t | 1847-9

New World PoeticsNature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and WalcottGeorge B. Handley

“Will be viewed as a foundational work because of its many, and remarkably perceptive, links among poetry, natural history, and political history. Handley’s scholarship is impressive throughout, as he explores both North American and Latin American conceptions of the New World and illuminates the origins, potential, and limitations of American Studies as a disci-pline.”—John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home

456 pp.Cloth, $39.95s | 2864-5

This CompostEcological Imperatives in American PoetryJed Rasula

Surveys both the convictions asserted by American poets and the poetics they develop in their craft, all with an eye toward an emerging ecological worldview.

“Rasula’s insights are fresh and often exciting. This is an important book.”—Guy Davenport

“Rasula has done the admirably poetic thing of making his meter match his meaning, employ-ing an exceedingly unconventional form for an academic book, but one which fits his subject and prose style well.”—Virginia Quarterly Review

259 pp. | 10 imagesCloth, $39.95s | 2366-4

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