Part one. Who are we? where are we? : exploring the boundaries of ecocriticism
Of swamp dragons : mud, megalopolis, and a future for ecocriticism / Anthony Lioi
Challenging the confines : Haiku from the prison camps / Angela Waldie
Beyond Walden Pond : Asian American literature and the limits of ecocriticism / Robert T. Hayashi
To name is to claim, or remembering place : Native American writers reclaim the Northeast / Lee Schweninger
Lynching sites : where trauma and pastoral collide / Daniel J. Martin
Part two. The solid Earth! the actual world! : environmental discourse and practice
Composition and the rhetoric of eco-effective design / Tim Lindgren
A mosaic of landscapes : ecological restoration and the work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko / James Barilla
Apocalyptic or precautionary? : revisioning texts in environmental literature / Amy M. Patrick
Facing the true costs of living : Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on dams and writing / Bruce Allen
Romanticism and the city : toward a green architecture / Onno Oerlemans
Annie Dillard and the Book of Job : notes toward a postnatural ecocriticism / David Mazel
Part three. Contact! contact! : interdisciplinary connections
Seeking common ground : integrating the sciences and the humanities / Laura Dassow Walls
Mindless fools and leaves that run : subjectivity, politics, and myth in scientific nomenclature / Jennifer C. Wheat
Reading after Darwin : a prospectus / Michael P. Cohen
Of spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home studies in nature / Tina Gianquitto
The great, shaggy barbaric Earth : geological writings of John Burroughs / Jeff Walker.