Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment written by Timothy Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental criticism is a relatively new discipline that brings the global problem of environmental crisis to the forefront of literary and cultural studies. This introduction defines what eco-criticism is and provides a set of conceptual tools to encourage students to look at the texts they're reading in a new way.