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La fascination pour les bêtes sauvages, bien mise en évidence par Jean-Christophe Bailly dans Le Versant animal, s'étend aussi aux textes qui parlent des animaux. Devenue scientifiquement obsolète comme discipline, l'histoire naturelle, dans son ambition inassouvie d'inventaire universel, peut désormais être explorée comme une réserve poétique de discours sur le monde animal. Entre les lignes, elle dit le besoin de raconter des histoires de bêtes, et souligne ainsi l'importance non seulement de la description mais aussi du récit dans l'élaboration des savoirs.S'interroger sur les échos de l'histoire naturelle, depuis Buffon, dans la littérature française, en mettant l'accent sur les textes des XXe et XXIe siècles, nourris de darwinisme et d'éthologie, revient à poser à nouveau frais la question des rapports, au sein du monde animal, entre l'humain et le non-humain. Érudition et fantaisie se côtoient dans des textes qui ne dissimulent plus leur empathie à l'égard des bêtes - dans le cadre désormais reconnu, mais menacé, d'une appartenance commune au monde vivant.

Animals in literature. --- Natural history in literature.

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Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that--far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture--nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire.

Romanticism --- Natural history in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- English literature --- Nature in poetry --- History and criticism.

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Although "romantic science" may sound like a paradox, much of the romance surrounding modern science—the mad scientist, the intuitive genius, the utopian transformation of nature—originated in the Romantic period. Romantic Science traces the literary and cultural politics surrounding the formation of the modern scientific disciplines emerging from eighteenth-century natural history. Revealing how scientific concerns were literary concerns in the Romantic period, the contributors uncover the vital role that new discoveries in earth, plant, and animal sciences played in the period's literary culture. As Thomas Pennant put it in 1772, "Natural History is, at present, the favourite science over all Europe, and the progress which has been made in it will distinguish and characterise the eighteenth century in the annals of literature." As they examine the social and literary ramifications of a particular branch or object of natural history, the contributors to this volume historicize our present intellectual landscape by reimagining and redrawing the disciplinary boundaries between literature and science.Contributors include Alan Bewell, Rachel Crawford, Noah Heringman, Theresa M. Kelley, Amy Mae King, Lydia H. Liu, Anne K. Mellor, Stuart Peterfreund, and Catherine E. Ross.

Natural history in literature. --- Literature and science --- Nature in literature. --- English literature --- Nature in poetry --- History --- History and criticism. --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Great Britain --- Natural history in literature

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Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that. Recently dominated by works of 'new nature writing', environmental writing includes works of poetry and fiction about the world around us. In the last two decades, universities have begun to offer environmental writing modules and courses with the intention of teaching students skills in the field of writing inspired by the natural world. This book asks how students are being guided into writing about environments. Informed by independently conducted interviews with educators, and a review of existing pedagogical guides, it explores recurring instructions given to students for writing about the environment and compares these pedagogical approaches to the current theory and practice of ecocriticism by scholars such as Ursula Heise and Timothy Morton. Proposing a set of original pedagogical exercises influenced by ecocriticism, the book draws on a number of self-reflexive, environmentally-conscious poets, including Juliana Spahr, Jorie Graham and Les Murray, as creative and stimulating models for teachers and students.

Environnement --- English literature --- Natural history in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Dans la littérature. --- Poésie. --- History and criticism.

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Why do we speak so much of nature today when there is so little of it left? Prompted by this question, this study offers the first full-length exploration of modern British nature writing, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on non-fictional prose writing, the book supplies new readings of classic texts by Romantic, Victorian and Contemporary authors, situating these within the context of an enduringly popular genre. Nature writing is still widely considered fundamentally celebratory or escapist, yet it is also very much in tune with the conflicts of a natural world under threat. The book's four authors connect these conflicts to the triple historical crisis of the environment; of representation; and of modern dissociated sensibility. This book offers an informed critical approach to modern British nature writing for specialist readers, as well as a valuable guide for general readers concerned by an increasingly diminished natural world.

Natural history literature --- English prose literature --- Nature in literature. --- Natural history in literature. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Scientific literature --- Natural history --- Nature literature --- Nature in poetry