Nature Walks - Peripatetic Tradition in the Non-fiction Travel Writing of Robert Macfarlane

This book, Nature Walks: Peripatetic Tradition in Non-fiction Travel Writing of Robert Macfarlane examines pedestrianism in the long history of British travel writing and examines the consequences that foot mobility has for the walking self and for the meaning-making of the surrounding world. This book also discovers how the books by Robert Macfarlane, a widely read British author, on the one hand, uphold some of the long-established tenets of the travel genre, and, on the other hand, demonstrate an openness to departure, renewal, and the reconfiguration of discursive practices. Nature Walks offers a profound examination of the ways by which literary language may respond to our present environmental challenges.

List of contents

Acknowledgements - Chapter One Key Issues and Historical Perspective
of Travel Writing Studies - Chapter Two Nature Writing and Peripatetic Literature - Chapter Three Robert Macfarlane's Peripatetic Books - Conclusions - Bibliography - Index

About the author

Anna Dziok (Dziok-¿azarecka) is a lecturer at the University of Biäystok, Faculty of Philology. Her literary interests include modern travel books, literary pedestrianism, and representations of nature and non-human in contemporary literature.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Dziok
• Assisted by: Marek Wilczynski (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2023
• EAN: 9783631884003
• ISBN: 978-3-631-88400-3
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 23 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 488 g
• Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies