Reading Lists
World Literature and Ecocriticism
Beecroft, Alexander. An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day. Verso, 2014.
Campbell, Chris and Michael Niblett. The Caribbean: Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics. Liverpool UP, 2016.
Caracciolo, Marco, Marlene Karlsson Marcussen and David Rodriguez. Eds. Narrating Nonhuman Spaces; Form, Story and Experience beyond Anthropocentricism. Routledge, 2022.
Cheah, Pheng. What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. Duke UP, 2016.
Damrosch, David. Comparing the Literatures: Literary Study in a Global Age. Princeton UP, 2022.
Davies, Heather and Etienne Turpin. Eds. Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies. Open Humanities Press, 2015.
DeLoughrey, Elizabeth and George B. Handley. Eds. Postcolonial Ecologies. Oxford UP, 2011.
Dimock, Wai Chee. Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival. U of Chicago P, 2020.
Dimock, Wai Chee and Lawrence Buell. Eds. Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. Princeton UP, 2007.
Freedgood, Elaine. Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel. Princeton UP, 2022.
Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. U of Chicago P, 2016.
———. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. U of Chicago P, 2021.
Nayar, Pramod K. Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2019.
Niblett, Michael. World Literature and Ecology: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers 1890-1950. Palgrave, 2020.
Parham, John, and Louise Westling. Eds. A Global History of Literature and the Environment. Cambridge UP, 2016.
Poray-Wybranowska, Justyna. Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel. Routledge, 2021.
Holgate, Ben. Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse. Routledge, 2019.