ABSTRACT
This chapter shifts towards the ground of what is known as British New Nature Writing and considers human individuals and groups as they are embodied and embedded in (relation to) their natural environment, with a special interest in the way in which they provide an inventory of an ordinary that is more often than not defined by is vibrant visibility. To do so, it focuses on Sarah Hall’s Haweswater (2002), Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13 (2017) and Welsh novelist Cynan Jones’s The Long Dry (2006). It is generally inspired by a new-materialist perspective that is conversant with posthuman topoi, both in their fictional and theoretical renditions.
