Wetlands and Western Cultures

Rod Giblett is honorary associate professor of environmental humanities at Deakin University.

Introduction: An Invitation for Wading into Wetlands

PART 1: WETLANDS AND -OLOGIES

Chapter 1: Theology of Wetlands: Tolkien, Beowulf, and Milton on Marshes and Their Monsters

Chapter 2: Psychology of Wetlands: Mourning, Melancholy, and Marshes

PART II: WETLANDS, ART, AND CULTURE

Chapter 3: Wetland Cultures of the English Fens: Politics, Painting, Poetry, Prose, and Art History

Chapter 4: Wetland Cultures of ‘Australia Felix’: From Mountain Ranges and Landscape Painting to Wetland Places in Environmental Artwork

Chapter 5: Wetland Cultures of ‘Western Australia Felix’: From Mountain Range and Landscape Aesthetics to Wetland Womb in Environmental Artwork

PART III: WETLANDS AND CITIES

Chapter 6: The Birth of Sydney and the Death of its Wetlands

Chapter 7: Water in Urban Waterscapes and Wetlands in London and Melbourne

PART IV: WETLANDS AND NATURE WRITING

Chapter 8: Henry David Thoreau: The Patron Saint of Swamps

Chapter 9: Farewell: Nature writing and Black Swan Lake