Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago

Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
PART I: APPROACHING THE ISLAND
	1 Taking the ‘Good Step’ in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran
	2 The ‘World-Hungry Art of Words’: Tim Robinson’s Formal Dialectic
PART II: MATERIAL IMMERSION
	3 ‘The Past Is Too Much with Us’: Material Remains in Brenda Chamberlain’s Tide-race
	4 The Living Island: Christine Evans’ Bardsey
PART III: THE ISLAND ASSEMBLAGE
	5 W. G. Sebald’s Orfordness: Rewriting the Romantic Island
	6 Reading Things: Sebald’s Melancholy Resistance
PART IV: ARCHIPELAGIC REFRACTION
	7 Stories from the ‘Heart of the World’: Stephen Watts’ Republic of Dogs/Republic of Birds
	8 Thoughts of Home: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun
PART V: ISLANDS ‘AT THE EDGE’
	9 ‘Signs of Strangeness’: The guga Hunt in Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways and the Plastic Doll’s Head in Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Findings’
	10 From the Stone Age to the Age of Satellites: Anthropocene Islands
Epilogue: Archipelagic Ecocriticism
Bibliography
Index
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