PART I: ECOCRITICISM AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE: NEW APPROACHES, MATURING DISCIPLINES \'Slow Shakespeare; or, Reversing our Crimes Against Nature\'; S.O\'Dair \'Mute Timber? Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia\'; T.Borlik \'Defining Nature Through Monstrosity\'; G.Brown \'Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare\'; S.Estok \'How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat\'; K.Raber \'Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More\'s Utopia\'; I.Kamps & M.L.Smith \'Summer\'s Lease: Shakespeare (and Others) in the Little Ice Age\'; R.Markley PART II: THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH: THE IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION FOR EARLY MODERN NATURE \'Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Life-Giving Across the Species Barrier in an Early Modern Bible Harmony\'; N.Johnson \'An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex\'; M.Gimmel \'Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition\'; J.Gatta \'The Pomology of Eden: Apple Culture and Early New England Poetry\'; M.G.Ziser PART III: NATURE AND EMPIRE \'Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon\'s History\'; A.Lioi \'Searching for De Soto: Narrative Scholarship, Ecocriticism, and the Problems of Place\'; T.Hallock \'Imagining the Forest: Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Spanish and English Writings of the Southeast, 1542-1709\'; E.Thomson Shields \'Would Thomas More Have Wanted to Go To Mars? The Eco-economy of Colonial Promotion Literature\'; T.Sweet