• 2001 John G. Cawelti Award, which Honors the Most Outstanding Scholarly Inquiry into American Culture, Sponsored by The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

Author of the widely influential The Environmental Imagination, Buell is a major figure in contemporary ecocriticism. Here, in broadening the scope of his earlier book, Buell blurs the usual distinction between natural and built environments. Exploring how a variety of texts imagine urban, rural, ocean, and desert places, he convincingly argues that literary imagination is powerfully shaped by--and shapes--a single, complex environment that is both found and constructed...Buell's book is important: it points ecocriticism in profoundly new and welcome directions.
   --W. Conlogue, Choice

Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.

Read More by Lawrence Buell:

• The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture
• Emerson
• Ecology and the Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities