List of plates

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of plates vi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The animal turn and ecocriticism 13
6. 2 Writing wildness: the Soay sheep of St Kilda 30
7. 3 Natureculture in pastoralism and the literary pastoral 49
8. 4 Culture and sheep in the English Lakeland 66
9. 5 ‘Green Desert’ or ‘Living Landscape’: sheep and people in the Welsh uplands 86
10. 6 Sheep and contested land use in Scotland 104
11. 7 Competing narratives on the farm and in poetry: Ted Hughes and Kay Syrad 121
12. 8 Colonial sheep 138
13. 9 Sheep and poetry in a heating world 154
14. Conclusion 176
15. Glossary 180
16. Bibliography 182
17. Bibliography 196