Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020

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David Higgins author Graham Huggan author Pippa Marland author Christina Alt author Will Abberley author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Mar '22

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This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.

Why has nature writing gained such popularity at a time of unprecedented ecological destruction? Guided by this question, this book offers an informed critical approach to modern British nature writing for specialist readers, as well as providing a valuable guide for general readers concerned by an increasingly diminished natural world.Why do we speak so much of nature today when there is so little of it left? Prompted by this question, this study offers the first full-length exploration of modern British nature writing, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on non-fictional prose writing, the book supplies new readings of classic texts by Romantic, Victorian and Contemporary authors, situating these within the context of an enduringly popular genre. Nature writing is still widely considered fundamentally celebratory or escapist, yet it is also very much in tune with the conflicts of a natural world under threat. The book's five authors connect these conflicts to the triple historical crisis of the environment; of representation; and of modern dissociated sensibility. This book offers an informed critical approach to modern British nature writing for specialist readers, as well as a valuable guide for general readers concerned by an increasingly diminished natural world.

'… this book brilliantly and provocatively makes the case for nature writing and its discussion as exploring both what 'environment' is and the nature of human 'impact' and interaction.' Terry Gifford, Agricultural History Review

ISBN: 9781107191327

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 21mm

Weight: 540g

300 pages