Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, this interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the complementary and contested aspects of these approaches to literature, culture, and society.

Introduction: Ecocritical Geographies, Geocritical Ecologies, and the Spaces of Modernity; Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. BattistaPART I: TRANS-THEORETICAL PRACTICES1. Geocriticism Meets Ecocriticism: Bertrand Westphal and Environmental Thinking; Eric Prieto2. Ecocritical and Geocritical Conjunctions in North Atlantic Environmental Multimedia and Place-Based Poetry; Derek Gladwin3. Noncommittal Commitment: Alien Spaces of Ecocosmopolitics in Recent World Literature; Ted GeierPART II: SURVEYING TERRITORIES4. Affective Edgelands: Wildness, History and Technology in Britain's Post-industrial and Post-natural Topographies; Tom Bristow5. 'The sea was the river, the river the sea': The Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel in Robert Minhinnick and Philip Gross; Louise Chamberlain6. Black Jungle, Beautiful Forest: A Postcolonial, Green Geocriticism of the Indian Sundarbans; Luca RaimondiPART III: ECOCRITICAL EXPLORATIONS7. Outside Within: Natural Environment and Social Place in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca; Stanka Radovi?8. Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem and the Geo-satirical Indictment of the English Crown; Dan Mills9. Nature and the Oppressed Female Body in Nora Okja Keller's Ecofeminist Aesthetics; Silvia Schultermandl10. Toward an Environmental Imagination of Displacement in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry; Judith Rauscher