Ecocriticism in Italy: environment, literature and new materialisms. About the two volumes of Serenella Iovino, Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance and Liberation and by Nicola Turi (edited by), Literary Ecosystems. Places and Countries in Twentieth Century Fiction

In the last decade, ecocriticism has emerged and quickly spread as one of the most prominent methods of literary analysis. In this review article, a brief history of ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities is presented. Specifically, the article introduces the reader to the seminal and fundamental texts that constitute an essential ecocritical reading list. In addition, it presents the most important currents of the discipline and the state of Italian ecocriticism. In the second part, two recent volumes (Iovino 2016 and Turi 2016) are reviewed.