Resources
Reading List on Ecology and Related Topics
George Catlin, ". . . Notes on the Manners . . . of the North American Indians"
Annie Dillard, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey," "Ode on Intimations of Immortality," The Prelude, book I, book II, book III,
book IV; background on Romanticism
Arne Naes and Bill Devall, "Deep Ecology"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature; background on transcendentalism
Linda Hogan, Power
Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place
Charlotte Mew, "The Trees are Down"
N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain
William Morris, News from Nowhere, "The Beauty of Life"
James O'Connor, Val Plumwood, and Freya Mathews, essays on socialist ecology and ecofeminism
John Ruskin, Modern Painters, "The Lamp of Memory"
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
Henry David Thoreau, selections from Walden and Excursions
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge, pp. 1-95; Refuge 96ff.
Authors - biographical, bibliographical and critical information from the Dictionary of Literary Biography (UI access only).
Selected Databases from the UI Libraries
Modern Language Association Bibliography (MLAB), 1967 - present. Indexes books, chapters of books, dissertations, journal articles, conference proceedings and more. (UI access only)
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) - scanned contents pages of about 2100 magazines and journals, some back to 1770. Excellent resource for book reviews. For example, Edinburgh Review (18021929). (UI access only)
Literature Online (LION) - a fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature. Includes Abell (The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature), which contains over 500,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. (UI access only)
OED
online (UI access only)
Selected Web Sites: Environmentalism and Animal Rights
Center for Environmental Philosophy
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
Animal Rights Law Project,
Rutgers University School of Law, an academic project
of Professors Gary Francione and Anna E. Charlton. "The materials
on this website include selected documents from some of the legal and
regulatory actions litigated by Francione and Charlton. These actions
involve: the right of a student to object to vivisection or dissection
in the classroom; hunting and wildlife issues, hunter "harassment,"
wild horses, animal sacrifices, and animal care committees. The website
also offers on-line handbooks concerning freedom of expression and housing
issues involving companion animals. In addition, the website offers various
essays and journal articles on animal rights and animals and the law,
and information about books written by Francione and Charlton. Finally,
the website contains various state and federal laws and regulations."
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