Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien, Le Guin

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