Modern British Nature Writing, 1789 2020: Land ... Review

Balancing scientific categorization with a growing sense of environmental catastrophe and industrial "improvement".

Addressing a "post-natural" world where human influence is inseparable from any landscape. Labour vs. Leisure: The Hidden Politics of the Land Modern British Nature Writing, 1789 2020: Land ...

Using the creative imagination to bridge the gap between human experience and the "otherness" of nature. Balancing scientific categorization with a growing sense of

Viewing the countryside as a place of leisurely ease and spiritual restoration. Leisure: The Hidden Politics of the Land Using

The journey begins in 1789 with the publication of The Natural History of Selborne . White is often framed as a pioneer of ecology, recording the complex interconnections of the natural world long before "ecology" was even a term. The book traces this lineage through three distinct eras:

Why do we talk about nature so much today when there is so little of it left? This paradox is at the heart of , a definitive study by a team of scholars including Will Abberley , Christina Alt , David Higgins , Graham Huggan , and Pippa Marland .