Preface
Introduction: A Literary History of Nature
1. A Poetic Consciousness
Double Voice, Single Vision: Ecopoetic Subjectivity and Margaret Atwood?s The Journals of Susanna Moodie
Mother Nature, Daughter Culture: Marjorie PIckthall?s Quest for Poetic Identity
Noble and Ignoble Savagery: Patriarchy and Primitivism in the Poetry of Constance Lindsay Skinner
2. Ecological Consiousness
The Task of Poetic Meditation: Revisiting Dorothy Livesay?s Early Poetry
The Ecological Vision of Isabella Valency Crawford: A Reading of Malcom?s Katie
"time is, the delta": Steveston in Historical and Ecological Context
3. Ecocritical Consciousness
Feminist Ecocritique as Forensic Archaeology: Digging in Critical Graveyards and Phyllis Webb?s Garden
Tracing the Terrestrial in the Early Work of P.K. Page: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Ecoreading
Confronting the Green Indian: Aboriginal Poetry and Canadian Literary Tradition
Recovering the Body, Reclaiming the Land: Marilyn Dumont?s Halfbreed Poetic
Afterward: Does Nature Matter?
Endnotes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author