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This article examines how contemporary British nature writing is reconceptualising nature, and our relationship to it. This development is contextualised in the context of our changing intellectual framework, particular the decline of an anthropocentric secular, immanence-bound standpoint.
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This paper considers how the popular literary movement known as new nature writing is giving voice to a widespread desire re reconceptualise our relationship to nature. It considers the popular work of nature writers such as Helen MacDonald, Robert Macfarlane and Richard Maybe.
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The new nature writing challenges a key element of the secular social imaginary, namely the subject-centered, immanence-bound, disenchanted representation of nature, which sets the self over and above nature, destabilizing existing dichotomies, and generating a multiplicity of hybridized possibilities that re-conceptualize our relationship to nature.
Professor Alexander J. B. Hampton
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Post-secular Nature and the New Nature Writing, Christianity & Literature, May 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0148333117735878.
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