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This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include both established academics and early career researchers in the humanities, were given free rein to interpret the brief. The collection is unusual in that it considers collaboration between individuals both in the same discipline and across creative disciplines. Subjects include familiar environments close to home and those such as Iceland and Antarctica, where narratives of climate, geology and ecology provide a stark backdrop to creative output. A further innovation is the inclusion of essays on public art, natural heritage interpretation and the visualisation and aesthetic impact of wind farms. The book will be of interest to writers, artists, students and researchers in the environmental humanities and those with a general interest in the cultural response to the environment.

Ecocriticism. --- Künste. --- Land-art. --- Ästhetische Wahrnehmung. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- climate patterns. --- creative partnership. --- day-to-day environments. --- death. --- ecocriticism. --- ecomusicology. --- environmentalism. --- high theory. --- human denial. --- mundane experience. --- natural heritage interpretation. --- photomontage. --- radical landscape poems. --- windfarm.

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The global risks posed by our industrial and post-industrial societies have brought environmental issues to the forefront of reflections and preoccupations in the postmodern world. One critical – and crucial – outcome of this state of affairs is the realization that artistic and literary representations of Nature and the environment need to be studied ever more closely if we are to adequately understand our relationship with our habitat and the impact we have had, and continue to have, on our planet. This volume features seventeen articles from French and international scholars covering a wide range of genres, from eighteenth-century travel writers to contemporary poets, playwrights and novelists. The essays consider Nature and the environment in their relationship to men and women and question how mankind is set to evolve in a contemporary world that is increasingly perceived as posthuman. They show how these concepts have affected Scottish authors and literature produced in Scotland. Presented chronologically, the essays highlight how each of the authors featured may have influenced the ensuing literary tradition. While the first section focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century Scottish poets, novelists, artists or travel-writers, the second turns its attention to twentieth and twenty-first century authors, with an emphasis on modern and postmodern considerations, including the future of the human species from a posthuman perspective. The collection is particularly noteworthy for its showcasing of previously unpublished material and stands as a significant contribution to arts research in ecocriticism and in the Scottish artistic and literary fields.

English literature --- Scottish literature --- Nature in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- Scotland --- Scottish authors --- History and criticism. --- Landscape in literature --- Nature in poetry --- environment --- literature --- industrial society --- nature --- In literature.