Samantha Walton is a Reader in Modern Literature at Bath Spa University. She is co-editor of the ASLE-UKI journal Green Letters and has held visiting scholarships at IASH (University of Edinburgh), The University of Aberdeen, and the Rachel Carson Center, LMU. She is author of Guilty But Insane: Mind Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction (2015) and Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure (Bloomsbury, 2021). Her first book of poetry, Self-Heal was published by Boiler House Press in 2018.

Samantha Walton has produced a clearly structured and wonderfully deepening discussion of Nan Shepherd’s remarkable expression of deceptively profound and vital lived experience. The Living World is a model of the ecocritical reading of a writer’s work in a critical extension of its interwoven strands of environmental thought.

• Introduction: ‘A Way In’1. Place and Planet2. Ecology3. Environmentalism4. Deep Time5. Vital Matter6. BeingConclusionBibliographyIndex

Samantha Walton is a Reader in Modern Literature at Bath Spa University. She is co-editor of the ASLE-UKI journal Green Letters and has held visiting scholarships at IASH (University of Edinburgh), The University of Aberdeen, and the Rachel Carson Center, LMU. She is author of Guilty But Insane: Mind Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction (2015) and Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure (Bloomsbury, 2021). Her first book of poetry, Self-Heal was published by Boiler House Press in 2018.

Samantha Walton has produced a clearly structured and wonderfully deepening discussion of Nan Shepherd’s remarkable expression of deceptively profound and vital lived experience. The Living World is a model of the ecocritical reading of a writer’s work in a critical extension of its interwoven strands of environmental thought.

• Introduction: ‘A Way In’1. Place and Planet2. Ecology3. Environmentalism4. Deep Time5. Vital Matter6. BeingConclusionBibliographyIndex