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Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien, Le Guin

by Dion Dobrzynski

Fantasy, forests, and ecological imagination

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Fantasy, forests, and ecological imagination

Dion Dobrzynski’s study places works by William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin in conversation through their imagined forests and the ecological histories and futures those settings evoke. Organised around escape, enchantment, experiment, and engagement, it connects fantasy criticism with ecocriticism and environmental and social sciences. The book also considers how fantastic imagination can contribute to environmental engagement in the present, making forest environments a way to examine the relationship between speculative worlds and ideas of sustainable society.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in ecocriticism and literary studies of nature.
  • Fans of Morris, Tolkien, or Le Guin seeking scholarship on their work.
  • Those exploring connections between fantasy literature and environmental or social sciences.

Themes

Forest ecologiesFantasy literatureEcocriticismEnvironmental engagementSustainable society

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Book overview

Examining books by William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin, three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book explores how fantasy writers engage with forest ecologies, histories and futures - both real and imagined - at a time when fantasies of a more sustainable society must be realised.

Focusing on themes of escape, enchantment, experiment and engagement, this book demonstrates the significance of forest environments in the fantastic imagination, brings together ecocritical and fantasy scholarship in conversation with the environmental and social sciences, and examines the ways in which the fantastic imagination may be used as a creative form of environmental engagement today.

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