This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to environmental crisis. It argues that the pastoral is emerging as a new criti
One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in gen
The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid abound with plants, yet much Vergilian criticism underestimates their significance beyond attractive background detail or the