Nature Prose - Writing in Ecological Crisis

Nature Prose^r seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: Remoteness


• 2: Exclusivity


• 3: Abundance


• 4: Rarity


• Conclusion: Transformations


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Dominic Head is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Head of School, 2007-2010. He was previously Professor of English, and Head of the English Department at Brunel University, and, before that, Head of the School of English at the University of Central England. He has authored many works on Literature in English, including ^iThe Modernist Short Story^r (Cambridge University Press, 1992), ^iThe Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000^r (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and ^iModernity and the English Rural Novel^r (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Summary

Nature Prose^r seeks to explain the popularity and appeal of contemporary writing about nature. This book intervenes in key areas of contemporary debate about literature and the environment and explores the enduring appeal of writing about nature during an ecological crisis.

Additional text

Recommended... Lower division undergraduates through researchers and faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Head, Dominic (Emeritus Professor of Modern Englis Head, Head Dominic
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2022
• EAN: 9780192870872
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287087-2
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Environmentalist thought and ideology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form