Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish literature from the nineteenth-century to the present. Developing an innovative methodology that approaches Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective, this book puts key debates in Scottish studies, literary theory, critical border studies and the environmental humanities into dialogue to highlight the critical intervention that Scottish literature can make in current theoretical discussions about borders and the environment.Examining a range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present day, Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination proposes that the creative possibilities of literature allow Scottish literary works to unpack key issues relating to borders and environmental concerns. It includes analyses of works by Walter Scott, Jules Verne, Nan Shepherd, Willa Muir, John Buchan, Alasdair Gray, Sarah Moss and offers a combination of theoretical discussions and in-depth case studies to show how writers reconfigure borders in connection with the Scottish environment.>

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Littoral
Chapter 2: Planetarity
Chapter 3: Territory
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Julia Ditter is a postdoctoral fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Ditter
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9781350431027
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43102-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Environmental Cultures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: from c 2000