Ash Nichols just sent me his new book, Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism. Ash is one of the very best close readers out there so I'm excited to find out what's in it. A quick glance tells me I'm going to enjoy it. If I was going to sum up the approach in a phrase I'd say, paradoxical situatedness. This is not your mom's localism.
Ash is also responsible for A Romantic Natural History, the go-to place online for affinities between Darwin and the Romantic period. With beautiful, careful, detailed information and imagery.
Image looks like Thomas Bewick wood engraving. I'd qualify him as an 18th c. ecocritic...
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