ABSTRACT

This essay offers a taxonomy of the New British Landscape writing, first identified in 2008. It suggests five principal ways of organising this large and growing body of work: through the thematics of rewilding, trauma, folk horror, walking as counter-memory, and a fascination with provisional edgelands. The contextual framework suggests that landscape writing marks an attempt to bolster place against the abstraction of space in modernity, a tactic amplified by resurgence of nationalism since the financial crash of 2008. The distinct British version of this crisis has been marked by the sharply divisive Brexit vote, which inevitably cuts across many aspects of contemporary landscape writing.

摘要

这篇文章对 2008 年首次确定的新英国风景写作进行了分类。它提出了组织这一庞大且不断增长的作品的五种主要方式：通过野化、创伤、民间恐怖、作为反记忆的行走和对临时边缘地带的迷恋。语境框架表明，风景写作标志着一种试图在现代性中支持反对空间抽象的尝试，自 2008 年金融危机以来，民族主义的复苏加剧了这一策略。这场危机的独特英国版本的标志是严重分裂的英国退欧投票，这不可避免地跨越了当代风景写作的许多方面。