10.4225/03/59211e65322a3 Rebecca Garcia Lucas Rose Rebecca Garcia Lucas Rose Lawrence Buell. The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003 [Book review] Monash University 2017 Lawrence Buell ecocriticism Environmental Politics Literary Studies not elsewhere classified 2017-05-21 04:58:11 Journal contribution https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Lawrence_Buell_The_Future_of_Environmental_Criticism_Environmental_Crisis_and_Literary_Imagination_Oxford_Blackwell_2003_Book_review_/4981682 The emergence of environmental criticism in recent decades stems from "very ancient roots." While acknowledging that reflection about the material world has a long history based in early cosmologies and intellectual concerns, Lawrence Buell's book aims to assess what is new in the relationship between writing and the environment, how such critical and creative engagement is relevant to life on earth today, and the potential for environmental criticism to develop much needed interdisciplinary perceptions and values for an endangered earth.