Description: The result is a synthetic and philosophically inflected study that looks at the literary and ecological significance of place within a broad cultural context.
Review Quotes: "Kate Rigby is working in an increasingly important area of ecocritical and romantic studies, and she brings to her task an impressive combination of erudition and scholarship, as well as a graceful prose style. "Topographies of the Sacred is particularly valuable because of the comparative element it brings to this work. Rigby's analysis of literary "nature" will occasion discussion, debate, and ongoing research."