Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature / / Louisa Gairn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gairn, Louisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748633111');This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the development of international ecological theory and philosophy.Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence of ecology as a scientific, philosophical and political concept in the work of these and other writers and in doing so presents an original outlook on Scottish literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Key FeaturesConsiders both 'canonical' and less well known Scottish writers, including Gaelic poets and mountaineering literature, Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, and contemporary authors Kathleen Jamie and John BurnsideThe first book to consider Scottish literature in the light of ecological and green thoughtEngages with a major topical issue and sets the study of Scottish writing within the broader context of international green approaches to literary studiesEncourages reflection on the links between literary studies and perspectives drawn from the disciplines of environmental history, anthropology, philosophy and cultural geography"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Re-mapping Modern Scottish Literature -- 1 Feelings for Nature in Victorian Scotland -- 2 Strange Lands -- 3 Local and Global Outlooks -- 3 Local and Global Outlooks -- 5 Lines of Defence -- Index