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Issue 3.1 - Special Issue "Critical Environments" Previous Issues

Editorial: Critical Environments

Deborah Lilley September 24, 2014 1 Comment Barbara Kingsolver climate change ecocatastrophe ecocriticism ecology environmental change Flight Behaviour Jeanette Winterson landscape Liz Jensen Maggie Gee nature planet Timothy Clark tourism Ursula Heise

In Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel Flight Behaviour, environmental crisis arrives in a remote Tennessee town in the form of the migrating Monarch butterfly…

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Issue 3.1 - Special Issue "Critical Environments" Previous Issues

Changing the Climate of Writing

Matthew Griffiths September 24, 2014 1 Comment Bronislaw Szerszynski climate climate change crisis ecological change landscape Lawrence Buell Nature writing Paul Kingsnorth Sheila Nickerson

Our climate crisis is constitutively complicated, because rather than dividing culprits from innocents, it both implicates us and impacts on us, to…

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Issue 2.3 Previous Issues

Recovering Nostalgia in Nature Writing

Deborah Lilley May 13, 2013 1 Comment ecocriticism Edgelands Findings Fredric Jameson Granta Green Letters Kathleen Jamie landscape Linda Hutcheon literature Mario Shoard Michael Symmons Roberts nature writers Nature writing Nicholas Dames pastoral Paul Farley Robert McFarlane Svetlana Boym Waterlog

In Edgelands (2011), Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explain their intention to ‘put aside our nostalgia for places we’ve never really known’ and instead seek…

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