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Compass: Where Are We Headed?
Trailhead: Our Point of Origin
Perception and the Nature of Ethics: How to Learn about the Ethics of Place from Literature
Walking in Woods: Learning the Lay of the Land
Mountain Georgics: Appalachia and Everyday Nature
"The Grit of the Land Was in Them": A Post-pastoral Reading of John Ehle's The Land Breakers
Deja Views: Familiar Terrain with New Vistas
"Lives Slip Away Like Waters": Drowned Communities in Rash's One Foot in Eden and Raising the Dead

"Little Porcelain Shepherds and Shepherdesses": The Female Pastoral Archetype and Version of the Appalachian Pastoral
The Nymph's Reply: Kathryn Stripling Byer and Pastoral Romance
Uphill Both Ways: Struggle on the Sojourn
"This River of Crazy Women": Subversive Motherhood and the Affrilachian Landscape in Crystal Wilkinson's The Birds of Opulence
An Ecofeminist Reading of Robert Gipe's Trampoline as Insight into Appalachian Oppression
Hidden Gems: Finding the New in the Familiar
Ecosexuals in Appalachia: Identity, Community, and Counterdiscourse in Goodbye Gauley Mountain

Seeing Queer Oddkin in The Prettiest Star's Appalachia
Trail Magic: Seeking Guidance along the Journey
Raven, Woman, Man: A/Religious Ecocritical Reading of Jim Minick's Fire Is Your Water
"Forest Christian," a Poet of the River Lands: Wendell Berry in Appalachia
Conflict and Resolution: Eco-environmentalism in Charles Frazier's Antiwar Novel Cold Mountain
A New Overlook: Seeing the Forest Beyond the Trees
Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar": Modernist Poetics and the Industrial Logging of the Great Appalachian Forest

A Sense of Place: The Rhododendron as Regional Identification on the Covers of Appalachian Local Color Literature
What Lies Beyond the Summit: The Future of Appalachian Ecocriticism
Toward a Post-Appalachian Sense of Place
For Further Reading
Contributor Biographies
Index