"Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment imagines fresh critical responses to the problem of altered landscapes and the human costs of ongoing environmental trauma. . . . It asks us to imagine a broader spectrum of emotional possibility and to reevaluate those feelings already in our activist toolkit."—William V. Lombardi, Environmental History
"Beyond critiquing the cultural logic of a human-dominated geologic interval and all that comes with it, the environmental humanities can offer a clearer sense of the Anthropocene’s ecological affects. In articulating scholarly versions of such emotional attunements, Affective Ecocriticism represents an exciting, ground-breaking vision of how such a project might proceed."—Andrew Ross, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"These essays, diverse in method, topic, and style, show that an affective ecocriticism offers numerous tools for understanding our present moment and imagining new futures."—Shelby Brewster, H-Environment
"This volume provides a refreshingly sophisticated approach for integrating the interdisciplinary field of affect theory with ecocritical analysis."—Patrick D. Murphy, Western American Literature
“Affective Ecocriticism cements the importance of affect—and not only data or narrative—to understanding current environmental crises and relations. It also posits how affect bears on acting on these crises (or not) and pivoting our relations. That is, the essays here aren’t merely descriptive or diagnostic; they also look to possibilities for response.”—Heather Houser, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect
“Affect theory and ecocriticism are both already vibrant fields of inquiry, but Affective Ecocriticism makes a strong case for their inherent compatibility. This field-defining book demonstrates the deeper ground that both of these approaches might find were they to understand the basic fact of their shared concerns, methods, and aims.”—Rachel Greenwald Smith, associate professor of English at Saint Louis University and author of Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism
