Mischaracterizing the Environment: Hardy, Darwin, and the Art of Ecological Storytelling

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Miller, John Macneill
Date Issued
June 1, 2020
Abstract
This article reads Hardy's representation of Egdon Heath in The Return of the Native (1878) against the ecology and environmental history of English heathland to challenge a growing consensus that sees Hardy as an ecological thinker. Hardy's writings fall short of ecological understanding, I argue, because his vision of humans entangled with an animated but deeply inhuman landscape creates affective and scalar tensions that falsely cast interspecies interdependence as ominous and alienating.
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Texas Studies in Literature and Language
Department
English
Citation
Miller, John MacNeill. "Mischaracterizing the Environment: Hardy, Darwin, and the Art of Ecological Storytelling." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62, no. 2 (2020): 149-177. doi:10.7560/TSLL62203. https://doi.org/10.7560/TSLL62203.
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University of Texas Press
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Published article
DOI
10.7560/TSLL62203
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0040-4691
1534-7303
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© 2020 by the University of Texas Press
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Environmental history...

Charles Darwin

Thomas Hardy

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