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Dark nature: anti-pastoral essays in American literature and culture

human life on earth, including human and non-human life’ (3). Our current age is a culture of ‘postmodernity and sacrality which harks back to the first nature of culture’, and ‘commemorates the life of the dead wetland, and celebrates the living earth more generally’ (7–8). In Cities and Wetlands, Giblett aims to ‘nurture and promote sibling harmony between cities and wetlands, and break the repetitious cycle of history’ (16–17). What would this look like in practice? Giblett does quote sources which describe the deleterious effects of the proximity of marshland – mosquitos, cholera, typhoid, not to mention subsidence, poor drainage. Can this ‘sibling harmony’ only happen where we have the technology to keep these at bay? This book poses many more questions than it answers, but it is certainly challenging and often startling: Giblett remains a provocative thinker, and in Cities and Wetlands he challenges us to form the answers for ourselves.