Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. A Literary History of Nature 11
5. Poetic Consciousness
6. Double Voice, Single Vision: Ecopoetic Subjectivity and Margaret Atwood's 41
7. Mother Nature, Daughter Culture 67
8. Noble and Ignoble Savagery 95
9. Ecological Consciousness
10. The Task of Poetic Mediation 141
11. The Ecological Vision of Isabella Valancy Crawford 161
12. "time is, the delta" 181
13. Ecocritical Consciousness
14. Feminist Ecocritique as Forensic Archaeology 205
15. Tracing the Terrestrial in the Early Work of P.K. Page; 235
16. Confronting the Green Indian 257
17. Recovering the Body, Reclaiming the land; 285
18. Does Nature Matter? 315
19. Endnotes 325
20. Works Cited 339
21. Index 355
22. About the Author 363