Introduction
1. Pastoral and Ecology in Contemporary British Writing
2. Taking Care: Pastoral and New British Nature Writing
3. Pastoral Relations: People, Place, and Nature in Contemporary British Literary Fiction
4. Uncertain Nature: Environmental Crisis in Pastoral
5. Conclusion: The New Pastoral in Twenty-First Century Britain
Biography
Deborah Lilley has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of San Francisco
"Lilley’s book is a vital contribution to ecocritical scholarship of the British Isles. Encompassing both the new nature writing and literary fiction, it blends the bracing skepticism of Timothy Morton’s Ecology without Nature with the recuperative and progressive energies of previous contributions to social ecology such as Raymond Williams’s Towards 2000. Above all, it demonstrates the continuing relevance of pastoral in an era of multiple overlapping ecological and political crises." — Greg Garrard, Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of British Columbia, Canada
"Lilley offers a concise and compelling account of how contemporary authors have reimagined and repurposed the pastoral in a time of global environmental degradation. This book is essential reading for any scholar interested in how traditional forms of literature have become freshly pertinent in the Anthropocene." — Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey, UK
