By Roger Ebbatson
This study offers an exciting
new perspective on a range of literary texts of the 19th and early 20th centuries,
exploring their vital but problematic depiction of nature. It offers the reader
seminal re-readings of a variety of texts, notably Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and
Edward Thomas, by placing their work in an original and illuminating cultural context.
Framed by reference to a range of philosophical ideas, notably the Frankfurt School
concept of 'aura', but also the Heideggerian reading of the 'destitution' wrought
by technology, and the phenomenological concept of 'immersion' in the natural environment,
this book will be of interest to both the student of literature, ecology and philosophy.
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