Contact collects new and classic first-person climbing stories from North America's best-known climbers and writers. Mountain climbers are important but overlooked commentators on the environment, and this collection of alpine adventures demonstrates the relationship between climbers and nature both for a popular audience and for academics working in the field of environmental literature. Contributors include Gary Snyder, John Daniel, Chris McNamara, and Greg Child.

The first full-length study to explore the role of nature in the Modernist novel, Green Modernism combines cultural history and contemporary theory to explore writers such as Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, and Mary Butts. Textual representations of nature in literature, as McCarthy argues, reveal the profound political and social convictions of the Modernist movement, including their negotiations of personal and national identity in an era of cultural crisis. Foregrounding today's vigorous conversations about the material world's in relation to literary artifacts, McCarthy...

One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, and Butts.