Deborah Lilley

The New Pastoral in Contemporary British Writing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138079687
• ISBN-10: 1138079685
• Artikelnr.: 58059236

Autorenporträt

Deborah Lilley has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of San Francisco

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Pastoral and Ecology in Contemporary British Writing 2.
Taking Care: Pastoral and New British Nature Writing 3. Pastoral Relations:
People, Place, and Nature in Contemporary British Literary Fiction 4.
Uncertain Nature: Environmental Crisis in Pastoral 5. Conclusion: The New
Pastoral in Twenty-First Century Britain