Author: Adrian Tait
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Barry, Peter and William Welstead (eds), Extending Ecocriticism: Crisis, Collaboration and Challenge in the Environmental Humanities
Peter Barry and William Welstead (eds), Extending Ecocriticism: Crisis, Collaboration and Challenge in the Environmental Humanities (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017) xiv + 273 pp. Hb £75, EPUB £71. ISBN-13: 978-1-7849-94396 (Hb). As Peter Barry and William Welstead explain in their introductory chapter, ‘Ecocriticism extends its boundaries’ (1-13), the aim of this collection of essays…
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Hubbell, J. Andrew, Byron’s Nature: A Romantic Vision of Cultural Ecology
J. Andrew Hubbell, Byron’s Nature: A Romantic Vision of Cultural Ecology (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2018) ix + 289 pp. £76 EPUB, £80 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-319-542379 In Byron’s Nature, J. Andrew Hubbell seeks a ‘full accounting of Byron’s environmental thought’ (1). In so doing, Hubbell sidesteps Heideggerian inflections of oikos – ‘narratives of dwelling’ which have, as he…
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West, Anna, Thomas Hardy and Animals
Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 210 pp. $80.00 PDF, £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107179172 Animals play an important role in Thomas Hardy’s work, but, with honourable exceptions, Hardy scholars have tended to overlook them. In Thomas Hardy and Animals, Anna West has at last made Hardy’s literary response to the non-human…
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Wånggren, Lena, Gender, Technology and the New Woman
Lena Wånggren, Gender, Technology and the New Woman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2017) xi + 218 pp. £75 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-474-416269 Wånggren’s book opens with a quote that perfectly embodies its focus. In Olive Schreiner’s short story ‘Three Dreams in a Desert’ (1890), the narrator comes across the figure of a woman weighed down with…
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Zapf, Hubert, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
Hubert Zapf, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts (London: Bloomsbury 2016) ix + 301 pp. £29 Pb, £29 EPUB . £73 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-350-051966 In Literature as Cultural Ecology, Hubert Zapf posits the ‘mutual interdependence between culture and nature’ as a ‘fundamental dimension of literary production and creativity’ (3). Drawing on ‘the paradigm of cultural…
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Solnick, Sam, Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Sam Solnick, Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (London: Routledge 2017) xii + 224 pp. £35 EPUB, £75 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-138-941687 In Poetry and the Anthropocene, Sam Solnick considers the way in which contemporary poetry ‘addresses the revolutions the Anthropocene creates in humanity’s condition’ (4). One challenge, as Solnick…
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Klancher, Jon, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age
Jon Klancher, Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013) x + 307 pp. £19.99 Pb , EPUB £18.99, £62 Hb. ISBN: 9781107029101 Jon Klancher’s analysis of Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age turns on something of a paradox: that institutions invented by the…
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Albritton, Vicky and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District
Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016) 209 pp. £28.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-226-339986 Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson open their account of The Simple Life in John Ruskin’s Lake District, as their book is subtitled, with the work of…
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Feder, Helena, Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman
Helena Feder, Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman (Abingdon: Routledge 2014) 192 pp. £95.00 Hb. ISBN: 978-1-409-40157-5 In Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman, first published by Ashgate in 2014, Helena Feder reinterprets that ‘most enduring of modern Western cultural forms’ – the Bildungsroman – as ‘humanism’s…
