The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704-1894
By Louis Kirk McAuley. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, Louis Kirk McAuley invites us to consider the ways in which particular unruly natures, including animals, plants and minerals, actively intervene in literature to decentre the human. Drawing upon invasion biology, in The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704-1894, McAuley offers transformative ecocritical interpretations of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and American literature and highlights the heterarchical nature ...