Description: Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage with forest ecologies, histories and futures, both real and imagined.
Brief description: Dion Dobrzynski is a scholar of literature and the environmental humanities. His research focuses on the intersections of literature and ecology from the nineteenth century to the present, and interdisciplinary approaches to environmental pedagogy
Review Quotes:
"However eccentric, Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction is a brave and commendable attempt to adapt nature's own discourse into a scholarly framework without yielding too much to any given set of presumptions ... It is ... exactly the kind of approach we need in the humanities to reenchant the world and make us see nature in a different light." --Journal of Tolkien Research
"A carefully researched, wide-ranging and insightful ecocritical study of the forests created by three major fantasy authors." --Matthew Sangster, Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History, University of Glasgow, UK "This book has a number of brilliant insights, creating a dialogue among several fantasy classics and showing how fantasy and imagination are crucial spaces for reimagining our relationship with nature and recovering wonder. It also opens literary criticism to interdisciplinary conversations, especially in bringing concepts from biology, ecology and other fields of natural sciences." --Marek Oziewicz, Professor and Director of the Center for Climate Literacy, University of Minnesota, USA