TY - BOOK AU - Morton,Timothy TI - Ecology without nature: rethinking environmental aesthetics SN - 9780674034853 AV - PR448.E58 M67 2009 U1 - 820.9/36 23 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Environmental literature KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - English literature KW - American literature KW - Ecology in literature KW - Environmentalism KW - Philosophy KW - Nature in literature KW - Philosophy in literature KW - Romanticism KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Environnementalisme KW - Philosophie KW - Nature dans la littérature KW - Philosophie dans la littérature KW - Romantisme KW - romanticism (form of expression) KW - aat KW - Literature KW - eflch KW - fast KW - nli KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - P.B; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Toward a theory of ecological criticism -- The art of environmental language: "I can't believe it isn't nature!" -- Romanticism and the environmental subject -- Imagining ecology without nature N2 - In 'Ecology Without Nature', Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature that most writers on the topic promote: they propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the 'nature' they revere ER -