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1st Edition

Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature

By Philip Armstrong Copyright 2025
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge
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Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature identifies and analyses encounters with unexpected, disconcerting, and unsettling aspects of the natural world, as these have been represented across a wide range of literary texts. It includes in‑depth discussion of both familiar and less familiar works from the British, American, and European literary traditions, and from the Classical period to... Read more

Introduction: Moving Nature 

 

PART ONE: NATURE’S AGENCIES

 

1. The Literary Seismograph: Earthquakes in European Literature and Thought   

 

2. Fear of the Forest: Cultural Xylophobia from Pliny to Proulx

 

3. Shakespeare’s Vital Parts: Animal, Vegetable, and Meteorological Actors on the Shakespearean Stage

 

PART TWO: ANIMAL AFFECTS   

 

4. Baleful Light: Literary Encounters with the Gaze of Animals

 

5. Taxonomy and Wonder: Old World Bestiaries and New World Marvels

 

6. The Lower Deep: Fathoming the Abyss in Moby-Dick

 

Epilogue        

Index

Biography

Philip Armstrong is a Professor of English at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Visual Regime (2000), Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2001), What Animals Mean in the Literature of Modernity (Routledge 2008), A New Zealand Book of Beasts (co‑written with Annie Potts and Deidre Brown, 2013), Sheep (2016), and two books of poetry.

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