Research Catalog

Title

The new pastoral in contemporary British writing / Deborah Lilley.

Author

Lilley, Deborah

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

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Details

Description

vii, 160 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to environmental crisis. It argues that the pastoral is emerging as a new critical framework in which to explore the understanding of people and place in this context. The New Pastoral in Contemporary British Writing explores how the pastoral tradition has transformed as authors respond to our changing relationships with place in this period. Analysing the features common to new pastoral writing, it brings together a corpus of works from major authors including Ali Smith, Jim Crace, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, and Robert Macfarlane. This book argues that crises such as pollution and climate change have shifted our understandings of the key relationships of pastoral and the terms upon which they are based, giving new senses to its older oppositions between the human and the natural, the urban and the rural, and the past and the present. Furthermore, it shows that the versions of pastoral that ensue align with current ecocritical arguments produced by thinking through the individual, cultural, and ecological implications of environmental crisis. As a result, pastoral emerges as the crucial strategy in the re-imagining of the environment underway in contemporary British writing, the resurgence of interest in nature writing, the increasing attention towards place in literary fiction, and the development of ecological or 'climate' fiction. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of English as well as those concerned with the interdisciplinary topics of the environmental humanities, including literary geographies, new nature writing, cultures of climate change and the Anthropocene, and ecologically-oriented theory"--

Series Statement

Routledge environmental humanities

Subject

• 2000-2099
• English literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• Pastoral literature, English > History and criticism
• Country life in literature
• Nature in literature
• English literature
• Pastoral literature, English

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Earthscan from Routledge"--Title page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 20-982

ISBN

• 9781138079687
• 1138079685
• 9781351627283 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351627276 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429686528 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781351627269 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019020392

OCLC

1120863526

Author

Lilley, Deborah, author.

Title

The new pastoral in contemporary British writing / Deborah Lilley.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge environmental humanities

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

JFE 20-982