Cirrus@Austlit

'Bartha-Mitchell’s monograph is part of the Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media series edited by Thomas Bristow. It is a welcome addition to the critical landscape, particularly for those who are interested in the relationship between literature and environment. It comes from a fine PhD written under a cotutelle arrangement between Monash and Goethe universities. The book brings a certain European sensibility to its reading of contemporary Australian literature (focusing on novels) insofar as there is a slightly more systematic approach in the thought than we tend to produce locally. There was a more than usually valiant attempt to distil consistent premises from the writings of Bruno Latour, Timothy Morton, Deborah Bird-Rose, Timothy Clark, Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway, assorted new materialists and post-humanists, and proponents of Indigenous critique.' 

(Introduction)