Working Bibliography
Working Bibliography
Below is a working bibliography of texts being used in the course of research for this project. Relevant texts are placed in separate sections (ecocriticism / primary and secondary literature concerning specific authors, for example). It is hoped that this bibliography will also be of use to other ecocritics and Germanists. Please feel welcome to browse and/or e-mail the webmaster with any suggestions regarding further items which might be included.
1. Ecocriticism (English and US)
Barry, Peter,
'Ecocriticism', in Beginning Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural
Theory, 2nd edn (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 248-71
Bate, Jonathan, Romantic Ecology. Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition
(London: Routledge, 1991)
Bate, Jonathan, The Song of the Earth (London: Picador, 2001)
Branch, Michael P., Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson and Scott Slovic, eds,
Reading the Earth. New Directions in the Study of Literature and the Environment
(Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1998)
Buell, Lawrence, The Environmental Imagination. Thoreau, Nature Writing and
the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1995)
Carr, Glynis, ed., New Essays in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (London: Associated
University Presses, 2000)
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (1962; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975)
Coupe, Laurence, ed., The Green Studies Reader. From Romanticism to Ecocriticism
(London: Routledge, 2000)
Empson, William, Some Versions of Pastoral (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1935)
Garrard, Greg, Ecocriticism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2004)
Gifford, Terry, Green Voices. Understanding contemporary nature poetry (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1995)
Gifford, Terry, Pastoral (London: Routledge, 1999)
Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold Fromm, eds, The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks
in Literary Ecology (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996)
Grgas, Stipe and Svend Erik Larsen, eds, The Construction of Nature. A Discursive
Strategy in Modern European Thought (Odense: Odense University Press, 1994)
Harrison, Robert Pogue, Forests. The Shadow of Civilization (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1992)
Hochman, Jhan, Green Cultural Studies (Idaho: University of Idaho Press, 1998)
Hooker, Jeremy, Writers in a Landscape (Cardiff: University of Wales Press,
1996)
Ingram, David, Green Screen. Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema (Exeter:
University of Exeter Press, 2000)
Kerridge, Richard and Neil Sammells, eds, Writing the Environment. Ecocriticism
and Literature (London: Zed Books, 1998)
Kroeber, Karl, Ecological Literary Criticism (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1994)
Marinelli, Peter V., Pastoral (London: Methuen, 1971)
Marx, Leo, The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1964)
Midgley, Mary, Science and Poetry (London: Routledge, 2002)
Murphy, Patrick, Literature, Nature and Other (New York: SUNY, 1995)
Murphy, Patrick, The Literature of Nature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1998)
Parham, John, ed., The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2002)
Ponting, Clive, A Green History of the World (London: Penguin, 1991)
Schama, Simon, Landscape and Memory (London: HarperCollins, 1995)
Soper, Kate, What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Oxford: Blackwell,
1995)
Williams, Raymond, The Country and the City (London: Chatto and Windus, 1975)
2. Green Issues
in German Culture
Amery, Carl, Hitler
als Vorläufer. Auschwitz - der Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts? (Munich: Luchterhand,
1998)
Blühdorn, Ingolfür, Frank Krause and Thomas Scharf, eds, The Green
Agenda: Environmental Politics and Policy in Germany (Keele: University of Keele,
1995)
Böhme, Hartmut, Natur und Subjekt (Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1988)
Brockmann, Stephen, 'The green battlefield: aesthetics and "Kulturpolitik"
in the current debate', German Life and Letters, 43.3 (1990), 280-89
Brüggemeier, Franz-Josef and Thomas Rommelspacher, eds, Besiegte Natur.
Geschichte der Umwelt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, 2nd edn (Munich: Beck, 1989)
Bullivant, Keith and Hugh Ridley, eds, Industrie und deutsche Literatur 1830-1914.
Eine anthologie (Munich: dtv, 1976)
von Ditfurth, Hoimar, So lasst uns denn ein Apfelbäumchen pflanzen. Es
ist soweit (Munich: Knaur, 1988)
Dominick, Raymond, The Environmental Movement in Germany. Prophets and Pioneers
1871-1971 (Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1992)
Dupke, Thomas, 'Leben und Werkder Brüder Heinrich und Julius Hart', http://www1.dortmund.de/upload/binarydata_do4ud4cms/50890/leben_hart.pdf
Ertl, Wolfgang, Natur und Landschaft in der Lyrik der DDR: Walter Werner, Wulf
Kirsten und Uwe Gressmann (Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz,
1982)
'The Green Alternative in Germany 1900-1930', in Counter-Cultures in
Germany and Central Europe. From Sturm und Drang to Baader-Meinhof, ed.
Steve Giles and Maike Oergel (Peter Lang:Bern, 2003), 155-170
Goodbody, Axel, Umwelt-Lesebuch. Green issues in contemporary German writing
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997)
Goodbody, Axel, ed., Literatur und Ökologie (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998)
Goodbody, Axel, ed., The Culture of German Environmentalism. Anxieties, Visions
and Realities (Oxford: Berghahn, 2002)
Gruhl, Herbert, Ein Planet wird geplündert. Die Schreckensblianz unserer
Politik (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer, 1975)
Hädecke, Wolfgang, Poeten und Maschinen: Deutsche Dichter als Zeugen der
Industrialisierung (Munich: Hanser, 1993)
Hermand, Jost and Hubert Müller, eds, Öko-Kunst? Ästhetik der
Grünen (Hamburg: Argument, 1989)
Hermand, Jost, Grüne Utopien in Deutschland. Zur Geschichte des ökologischen
Bewusstseins (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer, 1991)
Hermand, Jost, Im Wettlauf mit der Zeit. Anstösse zu einer ökologiebewussten
Ästhetik (Berlin: Sigma, 1991)
Hermand, Jost, ed., Mit den Bäumen sterben die Menschen (Cologne: Böhlau,
1993)
Jungk, Robert, Der Atom-Staat. Vom Fortschritt in die Unmenschlichkeit (Reinbek
bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1977)
Hope, Jacquie, 'Green Trends in East Germany: Critiques of Modern Industrial
Society in GDR Literature' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Oxford,
1992)
Jambon, Sabine, 'Moos, Störfall und abruptes Ende. Literarische Ikonographie
der erzählenden Umweltliteratur und das "Bild"gedächtnis
der Ökologiebewegung', (on-line doctoral thesis, University of Düsseldorf,
1999), http://www.umweltliteratur.de
Kaiser, Gerhard, Mutter Natur und die Dampfmaschine (Freiburg/Breisgau: Rombach,
1991)
Linse, Ulrich, Ökopax und Anarchie (Munich: dtv, 1986)
Linse, Ulrich, Zurück o Mensch, zur Mutter Erde. Landkommunen in Deutschland
1890-1933 (Munich: dtv, 1987)
Mayer-Tasch, Peter Cornelius, ed., Natur denken: Eine Genealogie der ökologischen
Idee (Frankfurt/Main: Fischer, 1991)
Morris-Keitel, Peter and Michael Niedermeier, eds, Ökologie und Literatur
(New York: Peter Lang, 2000)
'Environment, landscape and culture in Germany', in Contemporary German
Cultural Studies, ed. Alison Phipps (Arnold: London, 2002), 65-81
Riordan, Colin, ed., Green Thought in German Culture. Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997)
Rüdig, Wolfgang, 'The Greening of Germany', The Ecologist, 13.1 (1983),
35-40
Scharf, Thomas, The German Greens. Challenging the Consensus (Oxford: Berg,
1994)
Schneider, Michael, Das Gespenst der Apokalypse und die Lebemänner des
Untergangs. Essays und Aphorismen (Cologne: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1984)
Schwab, Günther, Der Tanz mit dem Teufel. Ein abenteurliches Interview
(1958; repr. Adolf Sponholtz: Hamelin, 1991)
Sieferle, Rolf Peter, Fortschrittsfeinde? Opposition gegen Technik und Industrie
von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart (Munich: Beck, 1984)
Vondung, Klaus, Die Apokalypse in Deutschland (Munich: dtv, 1988)
3. History of the environmental movement / green thought and politics
Bramwell, Anna,
Ecology in the 20th Century: An Introduction (New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1989)
Bramwell, Anna, The Fading of the Greens. The Decline of Environmental Politics
in the West (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994)
Callenbach, Ernest, Ecotopia (Berkeley, California: Banyan Tree, 1975)
Dobson, Andrew, Green Political Thought, 3rd edn (London: Routledge, 2000)
Dobson, Andrew and Paul Lucardie, eds, The Politics of Nature: Explorations
in Green Political Theory (London: Routledge, 1993)
Eckersley, Robyn, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward and Ecocentric
Approach (London: University College London Press, 1992)
Jamieson, Dale, ed., A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell,
2001)
Lovelock, James, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979; repr. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995)
McKibben, Bill, The End of Nature (London: Penguin, 1990)
Marshall, Peter, Nature's Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking (London:
Simon and Schuster, 1992)
Meadows, D., D. Meadows, J. Randers and W. Behrens III, The Limits to Growth
(London: Pan, 1974)
Merchant, Carolyn, The Death of Nature. Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution
(San Francisco: Harper, 1989)
Merchant, Carolyn, Radical Ecologies: The Search for a Liveable World (London:
Routledge, 1992)
Schumacher, E.F., Small is Beautiful (1973; repr. London: Abacus, 1988)
Pepper, David, The Roots of Modern Environmentalism (London: Routledge, 1986)
Porritt, Jonathon, Seeing Green (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984)
Primavesi, Anne, From Apocalypse to Genesis. Ecology, Feminism and Christianity
(Tunbridge Wells: Burns and Oates, 1991)
Spretnak, Charlene and Fritjof Capra, Green Politics. The Global Promise (Santa
Fe: Bear, 1986)
Wall, Derek, Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy
and Politics (London: Routledge, 1994)
Warren, Karen J., ed., Ecological Feminism (London: Routledge, 1994)
Whiteside, Kerry H., Divided Natures. French Contributions to Political Ecology
(Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002)
Worster, Donald, Nature's Economy. A History of Ecological Ideas (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1977)
4. German writers - Primary Literature (under construction)
example chapter: 2.Nature and Politics: Literature and Environmental Activism
Gabriele Wohmann; Horst Stern; Herbert Gruhl; Richard Pietraß; Günter Grass; Hanns Cibulka; Uwe Wolff; Gudrun Pausewang; Franz Hohler; Sarah
Kirsch; Franz Josef Degenhardt; Dirk C. Fleck; Johannes Mario Simmel; Bernhard Kegel; Bernd Steinhardt; Frank Schätzing etc.
5. German writers - Secondary Literature (under construction)
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