ABSTRACT
The conclusion draws on the insights of The Shifting Sands to advocate for the value of the literary imagination and ecocritical scholarship to the Environmental Humanities, arguing that the North Sea lowlands constitute a space in which the relationship between humans and the natural world has been, and continues to be, contested. It harnesses three insights into the imagination of the North Sea lowlands—the imagination of amphibious cultures, of erosion and loss, and of the Anthropocene in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “Four Theses”—to show how the inclusion of literary scholarship can enrich and complicate a historical understanding of these places.
