A 'right to sadness': late socialist environmentalism between technocracy and romanticism and the Czech nature writer Jaromír Tomeček by Babička, M

“…<p>The article examines the works of nature writer Jaromír Tomeček, his public image, and his reception by literary theory and criticism as a distinctive late socialist response to environmental concerns. …”

François Specq, Laura Dassow, Julien Nègre (Eds.), Thoreau beyond Borders: New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer by Sara Watson

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“My views of kinship, community, one-anotherness and love extend beyond simply the human”: An Interview with Kerri ní Dochartaigh by Melania Terrazas Gallego

“…Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a remarkably perceptive Irish nature writer whose work, exploring ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care, is sharply truthful, courageous and compassionate. …”
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The Cardinal Points of Robert Macfarlane’s Palimpsestuous Walking by Georges Letissier

“…If the appeal of the North was foundational for the contemporary nature writer, the North soon came to stand for a mindset rather than for a specific geographic area. …”
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Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable: Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’ by Andrew Stewart Rowcroft, Arin Keeble, Daniel Cordle, Daniel King, Diletta De Cristofaro, Joanne Scott, Neelam Srivastava, Rachel Sykes

“…In April 2016, The Guardian published ‘Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet forever’ by the celebrated academic and nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Reflecting on the article’s importance as a critical experiment and, perhaps, a vital form of public engagement, Contemporary Studies Network (CSN) asked six of its members, working across very different areas of literary and cultural studies, to respond to and extend Macfarlane’s article, mapping the different ways in which literary scholars might approach the age of the Anthropocene. …”
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Avian Ecopedagogies: Women Ornithologists and Environmental Education in Late Nineteenth-Century America by Clara Contreras Ameduri

“…By publishing children’s literature, these nature writers contributed to a new understanding of Victorian natural science, one which encompassed respectful interactions with non-human life and which acknowledged the role of environmental education in preventing further ecological destruction.…”
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“Stories of Making and Unmaking”: Deep Time and the Anthropocene in New Nature Writing by Amy Player

“…Through a consideration of the writing of new nature writers Robert Macfarlane and Kathleen Jamie, it looks at how their engagements with deep time challenge the feelings of helplessness that the scale of the environmental crisis can sometimes burden us with. …”
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