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- Title
Post-secular Nature and the New Nature Writing.
- Authors
Hampton, Alexander J. B.
- Abstract
With the turn of the twenty-first century, a group of writers began rehabilitating British nature writing and the voice of the individual interacting with it, producing what has become collectively known as the new nature writing. This examination considers how this literature represents a post-secular re-conceptualization of our relationship to nature. 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.
- Subjects
NATURE writing; NATURAL history literature; POSTSECULARISM; MACFARLANE, Robert, 1976-; MACDONALD, Helen, 1970-; NATURE writers
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2018, Vol 67, Issue 3, p454
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0148333117735878