Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thinking of Our Life in Nature -- Part 1. Who Are We? Where Are We? Exploring the Boundaries of Ecocriticism -- Of Swamp Dragons: Mud, Megalopolis, and a Future for Ecocriticism -- Challenging the Confines: Haiku from the Prison Camps -- Beyond Walden Pond: Asian American Literature and the Limits of Ecocriticism -- To Name Is to Claim, or Remembering Place: Native American Writers Reclaim the Northeast -- Lynching Sites: Where Trauma and Pastoral Collide -- Part 2. The Solid Earth! The Actual World! Environmental Discourse and Practice -- Composition and the Rhetoric of Eco-Effective Design -- A Mosaic of Landscapes: Ecological Restoration and the Work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko -- Apocalyptic or Precautionary? Revisioning Texts in Environmental Literature -- Facing the True Costs of Living: Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on Dams and Writing -- Romanticism and the City: Toward a Green Architecture -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job: Notes toward a Postnatural Ecocriticism -- Part 3. Contact! Contact! Interdisciplinary Connections -- Seeking Common Ground: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities -- Mindless Fools and Leaves That Run: Subjectivity, Politics, and Myth in Scientific Nomenclature -- Reading after Darwin: A Prospectus -- Of Spiders, Ants, and Carnivorous Plants: Domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home Studies in Nature -- The Great, Shaggy Barbaric Earth: Geological Writings of John Burroughs -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.