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Balancing scientific categorization with a growing sense of environmental catastrophe and industrial "improvement".

Why do we talk about nature so much today when there is so little of it left? This paradox is at the heart of , a definitive study by a team of scholars including Will Abberley , Christina Alt , David Higgins , Graham Huggan , and Pippa Marland . Modern British Nature Writing, 1789 2020: Land ...

One of the book’s most compelling insights is how nature writing shifts between two classical modes: Balancing scientific categorization with a growing sense of

Far from being a simple, nostalgic escape, the authors argue that British nature writing is a that grapples with the crises of the environment, human representation, and our own alienated selves. The Blueprint: From Gilbert White to the Anthropocene Modern British Nature Writing, 1789 2020: Land ...