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Feminist Ecocriticism Feminist Ecocriticism Environment, Women, and Literature Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2012byLexingtonBooks Excerptstotaling1710wordsfromAnimalDreamsbyBarbaraKingsolver.Copyright ©1990byBarbaraKingsolver.ReprintedbypermissionofHarperCollinsPublishers. Chapter4TheEdgeoftheSeaexcerptsfromTheEdgeoftheSeabyRachelCarson. Copyright©1955byRachelL.Carson.ReprintedbypermissionofFrancesCollin,Trus- tee. Chapter4TheSeaAroundUsexcerptsfromTheSeaAroundUsbyRachelCarson. Copyright©1950byRachelL.Carson.ReprintedbypermissionofFrancesCollin,Trus- tee. Chapter4UndertheSea-WindexcerptsfromUndertheSea-WindbyRachelCarson. Copyright©1941byRachelL.Carson.ReprintedbypermissionofFrancesCollin,Trus- tee. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Feministecocriticism:environment,women,andliterature/editedbyDouglasA.Vakoch. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7391-7682-5(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-0-7391-7683-2(electronic) 1.Ecofeminisminliterature.2.Ecocriticisminliterature.3.Feministliterarycriticism.4.Naturein literature.5.Ecologyinliterature.6.Humanecologyinliterature.7.Feminismandliterature— UnitedStates.8.Womenandliterature—UnitedStates.9.Americanliterature—Womenauthors— Historyandcriticism.I.Vakoch,DouglasA. PS169.E25F462012 810.9'355—dc23 2012019104 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ToChrisNeller Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction:ADifferentStory 1 DouglasA.Vakoch 1 EcofeministTheoriesofLiberationintheScienceFictionof SallyMillerGearhart,UrsulaK.LeGuin,andJoanSlonczewski 13 EricC.Otto 2 BarbaraKingsolver’sAnimalDreams:EcofeministSubversion ofWesternMyth 39 ThedaWrede 3 ReintegratingHumanandNature:ModernSentimentalEcology inRachelCarsonandBarbaraKingsolver 65 RichardM.Magee 4 ShiftingSubjectsandMarginalWorlds:RevealingtheRadical inRachelCarson’sThreeSeaBooks 77 MarnieM.Sullivan 5 DecadentDesire:TheDreamofDisembodimentinJ.K. Huysmans’ARebours 93 MoniqueM.LaRocque 6 “DiscourseExcellentMusic”:RomanticRhetoricand EcofeminisminMaryShelley’sTheLastMan 105 VickyL.Adams Afterword:Ecofeminism:TheIronicPhilosophy 123 JeffreyA.Lockwood vii viii Contents Bibliography 137 Index 145 AbouttheContributors 155
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