Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire

Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 2015. 

Decentering the human, the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewed intimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamic environmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.