Writing Landscape and Setting in the Anthropocene
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This edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of the role of landscape and place as literary 'settings'. It examines the multifaceted relationships between authors, narrators, and characters to their locales, as well as broader considerations of the significance of the representation of landscape in a world deeply affected by human interventions. Consisting of case studies of projects that engage with these questions, as well as research examining the theoretical underpinnings of both creative practices/processes and post-textual analysis of published works, this volume is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary in scope. In the context of the climate crisis and a pandemic which has caused us to re-evaluate the significance of landscape and the environment, it responds to the need to engage current trends within the academy and in broader social debate about our relationship to the natural world.
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"Dr. Craig Jordan-Baker and Dr. Philippa Holloway have assembled a group of fascinating writers and writings which make for a powerful contribution to contemporary debates about the Anthropocene holding that humans are not separate from nature. Focusing upon the entanglements between writing and landscape, Writing Landscape and Setting in the Anthropocene not only makes a key contribution to critical thought about the Anthropocene, this important volume raises stimulating questions for rethinking the craft of writing within environment and landscape more broadly." - Jonathan Pugh , Professor of Island Studies, Newcastle University, UK
"The essays in Writing Landscape and Setting in the Anthropocene, including the preface and the introduction, stake a robust and comprehensive claim in an emerging field examining writers interacting with and writing about place against the backdrop of increasingly threatening environmental crises."
-Stephanie Vanderslice , Professor of Film, Theatre and Creative Writing University of Central Arkansas, USA
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Philippa Holloway is a novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Staffordshire University, UK. As a writer and academic her work is published in internationally, and she has curated international writing projects and collaborated on interdisciplinary projects related to energy production and nuclearity.
Craig Jordan-Baker is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton, UK. He is principally a writer of fiction and non-fiction writer and has published peer-reviewed research in a range of creative writing journals. He is also a dramatist, short story writer, arts journalist, walker and forager.