Outputs (82)

John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification (2024)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2024). John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification. In M. Demson, & R. Hewitt (Eds.), Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions (238-257). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

This paper offers a revised overview of the now distortedly over-familiar topic of John Clare and enclosure, qualifying the emerging critical truism that this human injustice was also a fierce assault on biodiversity, one which can be immediately ass... Read More about John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification.

An 'Inhumanist' School (2023)
Journal Article
Clark, T. (2023). An 'Inhumanist' School. Oxford Literary Review, 45(1), 142-156. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2023.0408

This review article offers an introductory overview of a distinctive broadly ‘deconstructive’ body of work which deserves to be more widely known. Two books in particular, by Claire Colebrook, Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller, are an especial focus, wi... Read More about An 'Inhumanist' School.

Overpopulation: the Human as Inhuman (2022)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2022). Overpopulation: the Human as Inhuman. In J. D. Edwards, R. Graulund, & J. Höglund (Eds.), Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene. University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452968315

Reading against the Forces of Boredom:Environmental Literary Culture in 'the Age of Amazon' (2021)
Journal Article

John Masefield’s “The Passing Strange”: Derangements of Scale (2021)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2021). John Masefield’s “The Passing Strange”: Derangements of Scale. In H. Feder (Ed.), Close Reading in the Anthropocene (159-174). Routledge

Ecological Grief and Anthropocene Horror (2020)
Journal Article

The Value of Ecocriticism. (2019)
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Scale as a force of deconstruction. (2018)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2018). Scale as a force of deconstruction. In M. Fritsch, P. Lynes, & D. Wood (Eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy. Fordham University Press

‘But the real problem is….’: The Chameleonic Insidiousness of ‘Overpopulation’ in the Environmental Humanities (2016)
Journal Article
Clark, T. (2016). ‘But the real problem is….’: The Chameleonic Insidiousness of ‘Overpopulation’ in the Environmental Humanities. Africa Bibliography, 38(1), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2016.0177

This paper offers an overview of the chameleonic nature of overpopulation as an environmental issue, and of the relative evasion of population as an issue in ecocriticism and elsewhere: the very multiplicity of environmental factors means that popula... Read More about ‘But the real problem is….’: The Chameleonic Insidiousness of ‘Overpopulation’ in the Environmental Humanities.

Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. (2015)
Book

The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical... Read More about Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept..