Landscape Poetics

Monika Szuba is Associate Professor in Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk. Her research is concerned with modern and contemporary literature informed by Environmental Humanities, with particular interest in phenomenology. She is the author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World: Burnside, Jamie, Robertson and White (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), co-editor of Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern (Brill, 2022), The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature (Palgrave, 2019) and Reading Victorian Literature: Essays in Honour of J. Hillis Miller (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and editor of Boundless Scotland: Space in Scottish Fiction (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2015).

A compelling contribution to Scottish ecocriticism by the leading academic in the field, Monika Szuba’s new monograph offers an insightful and inspiring reassessment of the idea of landscape in the works of some of Scotland’s most celebrated modern writers. A must-read for anyone interested in Scottish nature writing!

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Phenomenological Reading of the Scottish Landscape1.‘This intricate interplay’: The Interconnectedness of Place, Atmosphere and Living Matter in Nan Shepherd2. ‘Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?’: Logos of the Landscape in Norman MacCaig’s Poetry3. ‘A wing’s beat and it’s gone’: Between Transience and Permanence in Kathleen Jamie’s Writing4. ‘A patch pegged out for closer examination’: Thomas A Clark Poetic Practice5. ‘Acts of communal memory’: Landscape, Memory and Place-names in Alec Finlay’s WorkReferencesIndex