Chapter 23: Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Comparative Ecocriticism
Linda Hutcheon is Associate Professor of English at McMaster University. Jenny Kerber teaches in the areas of Canadian and American literature, literary theory, and environmental criticism in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her essays on Canadian literary and environmental topics have appeared in Canadian Poetry , Canadian Literature , Essays on Canadian Writing , and Green Letters . This is her first book. Catriona Sandilands is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. She is a fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a former Canada Research Chair and past president of both the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (US). Cate is internationally known for her work in the environmental humanities, including three (sole and co-authored) books and over eighty scholarly and popular articles, essays and stories. In addition to Rising Tides, she is working on a book about plants and environmental philosophy (Cultivating Feminism) and a memoir about her journey to write a book about Jane Rule (The Jane Book). Cate lives and writes in Toronto, ON, and on Galiano Island, BC. Dr. Linda Morra is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Bishop's University. Her publications include Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Authorship (2014), a co-edited collection of essays, Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives (2012), and an edition of Jane Rule's memoir, Taking My Life (2011). Ella Soper is a lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, in the Department of English at University of Toronto Scarborough, and in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Rita Wong is an award-winning writer of four books of poetry, her latest titled undercurrent (2015). She is co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (WLU Press 2017), nominated for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, where she learns from water. Nicholas Bradley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was Canada's leading literary critic and one of the world's leading theorists of society and the imagination. Among his twenty-three books, and more than three hundred articles and reviews, are classic studies such as Fearful Symmetry , Anatomy of Criticism , The Great Code , and Words With Power . Margaret Atwood is known internationally for her award-winning novels, poetry, and short stories. She was born in Ottawa in 1939, and spent much of her childhood in northern Ontario and Quebec. She has lived, studied, and worked in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver, Alliston, and Boston, as well as England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, and Germany.
Greening the Maple is a must read for those interested in
literature and the environment. The collection demonstrates the
uniqueness and worth of Canadian ecocriticism and its various
origins and trajectories. Alec Follett, Alternatives Journal
A fascinating overview of Canadian critical engagement with nature.
Marinette Grimbeek, European Journal of Literature, Culture, and
Environment
If a good anthology is one that both lays the foundation and opens
the door, Greening the Maple fits the bill. This landmark volume
demonstrates that ecocriticism in Canada is well established and is
also ripe for questioning and extending. Paul Huebener, University
of Toronto Quarterly
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