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Ecocriticism and the Island Rethinking the Island Series Editors: Elaine Stratford, Professor in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania Godfrey Baldacchino, Professor of Sociology and Pro-Rector at the University of Malta, UNESCO Co-Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability Elizabeth McMahon, Associate Professor in the School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Australia The Rethinking the Island series seeks to unsettle assumptions by comprehen- sively investigating the range of topological and topographical characteristics that lie at the heart of the idea of ‘islandness’. Titles in the Series Theorizing Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives Ian Kinane Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualization and Representation in Popular Fiction Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher Postcolonial Nations, Islands, and Tourism: Reading Real and Imagined Spaces Helen Kapstein Caribbean Island Movements: Culebra’s Trans-Insularities Carlo A. Cubero Poetry and Islands: Materiality and the Creative Imagination Rajeev S. Patke Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations edited by Michelle Stephens and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel The Notion of Near Islands: The Croatian Archipelago edited by Nenad Starc An Introduction to Island Studies James Randall Atolls of the Maldives: Nissology and Geography edited by Stefano Malatesta, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Shahida Zubair, David Bowen and Mizna Mohamed Affect, Archive, Archipelago: Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago Pippa Marland Ecocriticism and the Island Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago Pippa Marland ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham • Boulder • New York • London Published by Rowman & Littlefield An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com 86–90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE Copyright © 2023 by Pippa Marland All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Marland, Pippa, author. Title: Ecocriticism and the island : readings from the British-Irish archipelago / Pippa Marland. Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023] | Series: Rethinking the island | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022037685 (print) | LCCN 2022037686 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786607089 (cloth) | ISBN 9781786607096 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Islands in literature. | English prose literature—History and criticism. | Ecocriticism. | Creative nonfiction, English—History and criticism. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. Classification: LCC PR756.I75 M37 2023 (print) | LCC PR756.I75 (ebook) | DDC 820.9/32142—dc23/eng/20220923 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022037685 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022037686 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992. To my beloved family (and other animals), and in memory of Tim Robinson (1935–2020). and this great planet passing upwards towards us out this silence & drifting & blessing of the water – Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Bermudas’ Then it’s one foot then the other, as you step out on the road. How much weight? How much? – Jane Siberry, ‘Calling All Angels’ Contents Acknowledgements xi List of illustrations xv Preface xvii Introduction 1 PART I: APPROACHING THE ISLAND 27 1 Taking the ‘Good Step’ in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran 29 2 The ‘World-Hungry Art of Words’: Tim Robinson’s Formal Dialectic 49 PART II: MATERIAL IMMERSION 69 3 ‘The Past Is Too Much with Us’: Material Remains in Brenda Chamberlain’s Tide-race 71 4 The Living Island: Christine Evans’ Bardsey 95 PART III: THE ISLAND ASSEMBLAGE 109 5 W. G. Sebald’s Orfordness: Rewriting the Romantic Island 111 6 Reading Things: Sebald’s Melancholy Resistance 129 ix
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