Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : toward a genealogy of ecological feminism
  • Pt. 1. Romancing the forest
  • 1. Radical nostalgia in Mary Wroth's The countess of Montgomeries Urania
  • 2. Nature as trickster : the philosophical laughter of Margaret Cavendish
  • Pt. 2. Piety and ecology
  • 3. The cultivation of good nature
  • 4. Millennial bodies : giving birth to new nature in the late seventeenth century
  • Pt. 3. Home ecology
  • 5. If animals could talk : ecological dialogues for children
  • 6. Defending local places : Anna Seward as environmental writer
  • Pt. 4. Thinking globally
  • 7. "The bones of the world" : Mary Wollstonecraft as ecofeminist critic
  • Afterword : a view from Cootes Paradise, Canada.