Protect and Imagine Our Future

By Natascia Gec

Protect and Imagine Our Future explores the evolution of environmental consciousness in Anglo-American literature from the seventeenth century to the present day. Bringing together fiction and non-fiction, the book examines how writers, philosophers, historians and novelists have progressively reimagined the relationship between humanity and the natural world.

Through the works of John Evelyn, William Cobbett, George Perkins Marsh, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Carolyn Merchant, William Cronon, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, John Steinbeck, Edward Abbey, Ernest Callenbach, Margaret Atwood, Richard Powers, Kim Stanley Robinson and many others, this study traces the emergence of an environmental imagination that moves from stewardship and conservation to climate change, ecological ethics and the future of life on Earth.

Combining literary criticism, environmental history and ecocritical theory, the volume demonstrates that literature has not merely reflected environmental change but has actively shaped the ways in which generations have understood, imagined and responded to the natural world. By placing fiction and non-fiction in continuous dialogue, the book offers a new perspective on four centuries of Anglo-American environmental thought and its enduring relevance to contemporary global challenges.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8DY73R3
• ISBN13: 9798186663379
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"