The New Nature Writing - Rethinking the Literature of Place

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as ''The New Nature Writing''. Rooted in the work of an older generation of environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary energy around the cultures of landscape and place is the outcome of a long-standing relationship between environmentalism and the arts. Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, ecocriticism and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways in which these authors have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising growth of "clone town Britain.">

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Local
2. The Wild
3. Edgelands
4. The Periphery
5. Archipelago
6. Geologies
Afterword: Lyric Place
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jos Smith is a lecturer in contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia. He has published on contemporary poetry and the New Nature Writing. He is a member of the advisory board of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium and of Common Ground itself. He is also the author of a first collection of poems Subterranea.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Jos (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature Smith, Jos Smith, Jos (Lecturer in Contemporary Literature Smith
• Assisted by: Greg Garrard (Editor), Richard Kerridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781474275019
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-7501-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Environmental Cultures; Criminal Practice Series; Environmental Cultures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000