The Living World

Focusing upon Nan Shepherd's writing, this book asks how literature might help us to reimagine humanity's place on earth in the Anthropocene. The first book to examine Shepherd's work through an ecocritical lens, The Living World reveals forgotten details about the scientific, political and philosophical climate of the 1920s to 1940s. With reference to The Living Mountain, The Weatherhouse, A Pass in the Grampians, poetry from In the Cairngorms and Shepherd's letters to Neil Gunn, Walton explores how Shepherd's work offers new patterns for modern understandings of environmental studies and how we can relate to human and more-than-human communities.