Ecocriticism and geocriticism: overlapping territories in environmental and spatial literary studies, edited by Robert T. Tally Jr and Christine M. Battista

involved in considering the felling of trees and significance of oaks and birds to a nonBritish readership. In each case, as throughout this collection, the best results come when historical knowledge and current sensibilities are brought together in the presence of a text which then begins to inform both. Such reciprocity of response is the ideal offeredby this volume. Its rangeof reference is shownby its eclectic bibliography, which will be a welcome resource for those seeking to expand their own reading or offer pointers to others. The positive aspects thus outweigh the negatives, including an odd predilection for repetition and recapitulation which is found in the title of the final section (Afterword: post-script) as well as within individual essays. Such repetition hints at an anxiety which the quality of the volume as a whole proves needless.