Table des matières

Acknowledgments

Philippe Laplace

Environmental and Ecological Readings: Nature, Human and Posthuman Dimensions in Scotland. Introduction

Part I. Nature and the Environment: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Anne Mckim

‘A Full Idea of your Own Country’: Paradise or Wilderness? Scottish Tourists on the Home Tour

Alan Riach

The Politics of Nature in ‘Praise of Ben Dorain’

• I. Locations
• II. Perspectives
• III. Translations
• IV. Structure
• V. The Culmination

Christian Auer

The Representation of Land in the Gaelic Poetry of the Clearances

Yann Tholoniat

Robert Burns: Nature’s Bard and Nature’s Powers

• Nature and revolution (s)
• Burns’s landscapes
• Fauna

Sarah Bisson

How Walter Scott Wrote the Scottish National Landscape. A Study of the Sublime and the Picturesque in Three Jacobite Novels

Cyril Besson

Paradise Lost or Creation Regained? Nature and Culture in Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet

David I. A. Steel

Recreating an Ideal Landscape: a Community’s Approach to the Designed Landscape of Cally

Marion Amblard

The Evolution of the Representation of Highland Landscapes by Scottish Painters between the Eighteenth and the Twenty-First Centuries

Part II. Nature, the Environment and the Posthuman: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Béatrice Duchateau

Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Landscape: Landscape as Sign

Jean Berton

The Posthuman as an Oxymoronic Mirror to Man’s Paradoxes in Iain Crichton Smith’s Meditative Poem ‘Deer on the High Hills’

• I. Deer forests
• II. The power of oxymora
• III. Oxymoronic effects
• IV. Oxymoronic echoes

Robin M. J. MacKenzie

The Hieroglyphic of Raindrops: Reading the Signs of Nature in The Warlock of Strathearn by Christopher Whyte

Monika Szuba

‘I Think of Them as Guests’: John Burnside’s Encounters with Nature

• I. Presences/encounters/crossings
• II. Home/dwelling
• III. Pleroma, or wholeness
• Conclusion

Stewart Smith

Basho Borne on the Carrying Stream: the Word-Mapping of Scotland and the Ecopoetics of Wind Power in Alec Finlay’s The Road North and Skying

• I. The word-mapping of Scotland in The Road North
• II. Skying and the ecopoetics of wind power

William Welstead

‘Hoping No-One Will See the Difference’: an Ecocritical Reading of Recent Poems by Meg Bateman (1959 -)

Camille Manfredi

Scottish Petroliterature 1993-2013: Poetics of an Oil Spill

Danièle Berton-Charrière

‘Land-scaping’ the Scottish Stage and Drama

• I. Preliminary remarks
• II. How can the Scottish landscape be defined?
• III. Dramatic and theatrical landscapes
• IV. How can these features be represented on a stage?
• V. Sonorous landscapes: music and language
• VI. A question of power

Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen

Shall We Try ‘Something New’?: The Posthuman in Brian McCabe

• I. Introduction
• II. ‘Something New’ and the Posthuman
• III. Virtual Representations
• IV. Identity
• V. Posthumanist Tensions
• VI. Sex
• VII. Conclusions

Notes on contributors

Name index