Ecocriticism and Women Writers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Justyna Kostkowska

   Pages 1-11

3. The Narrative Ecology of “Kew Gardens”: Virginia Woolf’s Ecofeminist Imagination and the Narrative Discovery of Jacob’s Room

   • Justyna Kostkowska

   Pages 12-28

4. “All Taken Together”: Ecological Form in Mrs. Dalloway

   • Justyna Kostkowska

   Pages 29-40

5. Singing the World in The Waves: The Ecopoetics of Woolf’s Play-Poem

   • Justyna Kostkowska

   Pages 41-55

6. Living with the Other: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body

   • Justyna Kostkowska

   Pages 56-70

7. Multiplicity and Coexistence in The Powerbook

   • Justyna Kostkowska

   Pages 71-90

8. The Fiction of Abundance and Awareness: Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping

   • Justyna Kostkowska

   Pages 91-104

9. Hotel World: A Symbiotic Narrative Space

   • Justyna Kostkowska

   Pages 105-123

10. Getting Close: The Ecopoetics of Intimacy in Ali Smith’s Like

    • Justyna Kostkowska

    Pages 124-143

11. Stories That Change the World: Ali Smith’s Ecological “Realityfiction”

    • Justyna Kostkowska

    Pages 144-163

12. Conclusion: Re-visioning the World from the Inside Out

    • Justyna Kostkowska

    Pages 164-166

13. Back Matter

    Pages 167-189

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Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues that these writers' texts have an ecological significance in fostering respect for and understanding of difference, human and nonhuman.

• Ecocriticism
• ecology
• environment
• Environmentalist
• fiction
• poem
• poetics
• Virginia Woolf
• women

"This book performs the graceful task of creating desire for the actual texts of literature, as well as the actual texts of nature and environments. Reading these chapters, we wonder if we too will perceive the world differently, now that we've understood the rapture possible in offering clear attention to the worlds we live in, and the worlds that live in each of us." - Greta Gaard, University of Wisconsin, USA

'[An] intriguing study... Kostkowska, a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, has produced a sophisticated and eclectically argued study of three interestingly interlinked women writers: Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith.' Dan Wylie, Partial Answers: The Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas

Justyna Kostkowska is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. She teaches and publishes in Modern British literature and Twentieth Century women writers, especially Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Wislawa Szymborska. She is the author of Virginia Woolf's Experiment in Genre and Politics 1926-1931: Visioning and Versioning The Waves (2005).

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