J. Kostkowska 
Ecocriticism and Women Writers 
Environmentalist Poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith

Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues that these writers’ texts have an ecological significance in fostering respect for and understanding of difference, human and nonhuman.

Table of Content

Introduction 1. ‘Kew Gardens’ Narrative Ecology: Virginia Woolf’s Ecofeminist Imagination and the Narrative Discovery of Jacob’s Room 2. ‘All Taken Together’: Ecological Form in Mrs. Dalloway 3. Singing the World in The Waves: Ecopoetics of Woolf’s Play-Poem 4. Living with the Other: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body 5. Multiplicity and Coexistence in The Powerbook 6. The Fiction of Abundance and Awareness: Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping. 7. Hotel World: A Symbiotic Narrative Space 8.Getting Close: Ecopoetics of Intimacy in Ali Smith’s Like 9. Stories that Change the World: Ali Smith’s Ecological ‘Realityfiction’ Conclusion

About the author

Justyna Kostkowska is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. She teaches and publishes in Modern British literature and Twentieth Century women writers, especially Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Wislawa Szymborska. She is the author of Virginia Woolf’s Experiment in Genre and Politics 1926-1931: Visioning and Versioning The Waves (2005).