TY - JOUR
AU - Mabie, Joshua
AB - ISLE The range of topics addressed in The Ecology of Finnegans Wake is ex- pansive: polar exploration, meteorology, climatology, urban and sub- urban planning, water management, conservation biology. Lacivita takes great care to locate these discourses within the cultural and intel- lectual history of the time—among the many advantages of her genetic approach is its insistence on rigorous historicism—but it is no accident that so many of these topics are of crucial relevance today. As Lacivita observes, “One of the most important reasons to look at works of mod- ernist literature like Finnegans Wake from an ecocritical perspective is the ability to connect current environmental concerns with their origins in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries” (17). Indeed, the larger ambition of Lacivita’s book is to draw attention to the benefits to be gained by redressing ecocriticism’s historic neglect of modernism— in particular, how ecocriticism might embrace theory, and how experi- mental and nonrealist forms of imaginative writing can signify in ways that engage very material stakes. For this reason, I recommend The Ecology of Finnegans Wake to scholarly readers beyond the Joyceans it is likely to attract; it is not only among the strongest monographs of Joyce 
TI - Landmarks. By Robert Macfarlane.Uncommon Ground: A Word-Lover’s Guide to the British Landscape. By Dominick Tyler.
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/isw029
DA - 2016-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/landmarks-by-robert-macfarlane-uncommon-ground-a-word-lover-s-guide-to-FCujnVjLU0
SP - 188
EP - 191
VL - 23
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -