Based on research conducted for my PhD, my monograph Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination published Open Access with Bloomsbury examines a range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present day. It proposes that the creative possibilities of literature allow Scottish literary works to unpack key issues relating to borders and environmental concerns. It includes analyses of works by Walter Scott, Jules Verne, Nan Shepherd, Willa Muir, John Buchan, Alasdair Gray, Sarah Moss and offers a combination of theoretical discussions and in-depth case studies to show how writers reconfigure borders in connection with the Scottish environment.
Further Reading
“Wayfaring the Outlands: Exploring the Borders of Mobility and Nature in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Writing.” in Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Special Issue on Ecologies of the Atlantic Archipelago (May 2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2021.1925866
“Reading Scotland’s Borders through the Environment.” in The Bottle Imp 29 (May 2022). https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/05/reading-scotlands-borders