Huggan, GDM (2016) Back to the Future: "The New Nature Writing," Ecological Boredom, and the Recall of the Wild. Prose Studies, 38 (2). pp. 152-171. ISSN 0144-0357
Abstract
The “new nature writing” has been seen as a response, especially in the United Kingdom, to the growing sense that earlier paradigms of nature and nature writing are no longer applicable to current geographical and environmental conditions. At the same time, some writers who have been associated with the “new nature writing” dislike the term, criticizing it for its residual parochialism, its continuing class and gender biases, and its paradoxical adherence to the very categories – particularly wildness – it wishes to confront. This article does not set out to dismiss the “new nature writing” or to assess which writers might be the best fit with it; instead, it looks at its indebtedness to the earlier literary and cultural traditions it claims to interrogate and deconstruct. This debt is often expressed in terms of belatedness, whether acknowledged or not, in relation to earlier notions of wilderness and wildness – inherently slippery categories that multiply and ramify in the “new nature writing,” which has neither managed to dissociate itself from wildness nor to redefine it for our ecologically troubled times.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2016, Informa UK Limited trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Prose Studies on 12 October 2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2016.1195902 |
Keywords: | Belatedness, ecological turn, environment, new nature writing, wilderness, wildness |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 May 2016 14:33 |
Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2018 00:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2016.1195902 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01440357.2016.1195902 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:96981 |