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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023 Mandy Goddard (21039560) Georgic Lifewriting Farming Organicism Self-sufficiency Regenerative agriculture This thesis is in two parts: a creative piece composed of four linked essays, entitled Red Earth, followed by a critical essay entitled Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023. The creative work is life writing based on my experience of living and working on a market garden, intertwined with nature writing, history, biography and other types of creative non-fiction. The critical essay examines the work of six georgic life writers whose work, the thesis argues, both reflects and helps create three distinct waves of counter-cultural environmentalism as it relates to land and farming in England during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Taken together, the creative work and the critical essay explore the role of the past in framing current environmental discourse. The thesis argues that contemporary georgic life-writing can be strengthened by an awareness of genealogical roots in the same way that counter-cultural georgic life writers use the past, mediated through a radical nostalgia, to ground their visions of sustainable futures.<p></p> 2026-01-06T00:00:00Z Text Thesis 10779/exe.31069546.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Back_to_the_Land_Again_Environmentalism_in_English_georgic_life_writing_1940-2023/31069546 All rights reserved Open Access after 2027-07-14