Description: Explores D. H. Lawrence's environmentalism and suggests new ways of reading his works in the Anthropocene.
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Terry Gifford is Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University's Research Centre for Environmental Humanities and Profesor Honorifico at the University of Alicante, Spain. A co-founder of British ecocriticism, he is the author of D. H. Lawrence, Ecofeminism and Nature (2023), Pastoral (2020), Green Voices (2011), Reconnecting With John Muir: Essays
in Post-Pastoral Practice (2006), The Joy of Climbing (2004) and Teaching A Level English Literature (with John Brown, 1989). He has also written or edited seven books on Ted Hughes, most recently Ted Hughes in Context (2018). His eighth collection of poetry is A Feast of Fools (2018). He is currently writing an ecofeminist reading of Lawrence's short stories.
Review Quotes: After years in the critical wilderness, D. H. Lawrence is ripe for a revival and this deserves to be the book where it begins. Once seen primarily as a harbinger of the sexual revolution, Lawrence was in more profound ways a prophet who foresaw the damage inherent in modernity's alienation from the natural world. These essays by a range of distinguished Lawrentian scholars reveal the prescience of his vision, as witnessed throughout his extraordinarily productive and varied writing career.--Sir Jonathan Bate, Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and author of The Song of the Earth