This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
In the last decade there has been a proliferation of landscape
writing in Britain and Ireland, often referred to as 'The New
Nature Writing'. Rooted in the work of an older generation of
environment-focused authors and activists, this new form is both
stylistically innovative and mindful of ecology and conservation
practice. The New Nature Writing: Rethinking the Literature of
Place connects these two generations to show that the contemporary
energy around the cultures of landscape and place is the outcome of
a long-standing relationship between environmentalism and the arts.
Drawing on original interviews with authors, archival research, and
scholarly work in the fields of literary geographies, ecocriticism
and archipelagic criticism, the book covers the work of such
writers as Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, Tim Robinson and Alice
Oswald. Examining the ways in which these authors have engaged with
a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to
island spaces, Jos Smith reveals how they recreate a resourceful
and dynamic sense of localism in rebellion against the homogenising
growth of "clone town Britain."
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