By Caitlin Carr, English Faculty Library
Last term in the English Faculty library’s exhibition room, I wanted to create a space for thinking about the environment in and through literature. Nature writing has a legacy in the pastoral, which is often seen as apolitical, escaping into the natural world as a simpler, more beautiful alternative to reality. But nature is an increasingly political subject, and a new nature writing is emerging which is ecologically minded and systemically connected – a cultural move towards an ‘ecology of mind’ to use Rob Macfarlane’s phrase.
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