Jayne Hildebrand is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is completing a dissertation on the 19th-century British novel and the concept of environment in Victorian science.
Jayne Hildebrand
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Unstill Life
English nature writing has never been all that natural. While their American counterparts tend to imagine natural landscapes as “the last remaining place where civilization … has not fully infected the earth,” English nature writers have more often embraced a pastoral sense of human continuity with a landscape that has been modified and cultivated for […]
