Eco-criticism
Eco-criticism The concept Eco-criticism arose in 1970’s. In UK it is Green Studies and in USA it is Eco-criticism. Eco-criticism or Green studies takes its literary bearing from British Romanticism of the 1970’s American transcendentalist. The founding figure on the British side is critic Jonathan Bate. Bate is considered as the father of Eco-criticism in England and Cheryll Glotfelty is the father of Eco-criticism in USA. Eco-criticism is the study of culture and cultural products, that is in someway connected with the human relationship to the natural world. It is a response to the need of humanistic understanding of our connection with natural world in an age of environmental destruction. The increase in technology has brought a disconnection of humanity from the natural world. Most eco-critical works are concerned with the consequences of human actions. American and British romantic writers took interest in nature as a subject. The Victorian writer wrote about industriali