Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandings of the planet to which we are intimately connected.

Contributions by: David Abram, Joni Adamson, Jane Bennett, Eli Clare, Stacy Alaimo, Hannes Bergthaller, Jeffrey J. Cohen, Simon Estok, Heather I. Sullivan, Catherine Rigby, Dana Phillips, Timo Maran, Cheryll Glotfelty, Greta Gaard, Lowell Duckert, Wendy Wheeler, Hubert Zapf, Timothy Morton, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands