Farrier, David

David Farrier

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J.A. Baker's<i>The Peregrine</i>and Its Readers

This article examines the popularity of J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine among practitioners of contemporary British nature writing. I argue that readings of The Peregrine in Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places and Kathleen Jamie’s Findings engage with a latent field of meanings in Baker’s text that align it with what Bruno Latour has called political ecology, and with Deborah Bird Rose’s emphasis on life as “gifted” not only through acts of procreation but through the sustaining deaths of coeval others. Macfarlane and Jamie’s attentiveness to this gift sensibility illuminates what makes The Peregrine such an imperative text in the current era of mass extinctions

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J.A. Baker's The Peregrine and its Readers

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J.A. Baker's The Peregrine and its Readers

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