Katy Shaw leads research into twenty-first century writings at Northumbria University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary literature, genre fiction and the languages of comedy. Katy is an expert in twenty-first century literature. She is a public intellectual, literary festival host, and media presenter.  Kate Aughterson is Principal Lecturer and Course Leader in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests include early modern drama, women writers, genre and rhetoric from Shakespeare, through Behn to Atwood and McBride.

• ‘Craceland’: An Introduction .-1 Pastoral Negativities and the Dynamics of the Storyteller in Jim Crace’s Harvest.-2 Pastoral Concerns in the Fictions of Jim Crace .-3 Ecocriticism and Jim Crace’s Early Novels .-4 ‘False patterns out of chaos’: Writing Beyond the Senseof an Ending in Being Dead and The Pesthouse .-5 A Different Kind of Wilderness: Decomposition and Life in Jim Crace’s Being Dead.-6 Absented Women’s Voices: Problematising Masculinity in Jim Crace’s Fiction .-7 The Bald and the Beautiful: The Figure of the Shaven-Headed Female in the Fiction of Jim Crace .-8 Searching for the Gleaning Fields: Gleaners and Leanness in Jim Crace’s Harvest .-9 Thinking Crace: Consciousness and Cognition in Jim Crace’s Quarantine and Being Dead .-10 Jim Crace: Inventor of Worlds  11 An Atheist’s Spirituality: Jim Crace’s Post-Religious Fiction .- 12 “Sentences with Wings”: Jim Crace in Conversation with Dr Kate Aughterson Index

Katy Shaw leads research into twenty-first century writings at Northumbria University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary literature, genre fiction and the languages of comedy. Katy is an expert in twenty-first century literature. She is a public intellectual, literary festival host, and media presenter.  Kate Aughterson is Principal Lecturer and Course Leader in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests include early modern drama, women writers, genre and rhetoric from Shakespeare, through Behn to Atwood and McBride.

• ‘Craceland’: An Introduction .-1 Pastoral Negativities and the Dynamics of the Storyteller in Jim Crace’s Harvest.-2 Pastoral Concerns in the Fictions of Jim Crace .-3 Ecocriticism and Jim Crace’s Early Novels .-4 ‘False patterns out of chaos’: Writing Beyond the Senseof an Ending in Being Dead and The Pesthouse .-5 A Different Kind of Wilderness: Decomposition and Life in Jim Crace’s Being Dead.-6 Absented Women’s Voices: Problematising Masculinity in Jim Crace’s Fiction .-7 The Bald and the Beautiful: The Figure of the Shaven-Headed Female in the Fiction of Jim Crace .-8 Searching for the Gleaning Fields: Gleaners and Leanness in Jim Crace’s Harvest .-9 Thinking Crace: Consciousness and Cognition in Jim Crace’s Quarantine and Being Dead .-10 Jim Crace: Inventor of Worlds  11 An Atheist’s Spirituality: Jim Crace’s Post-Religious Fiction .- 12 “Sentences with Wings”: Jim Crace in Conversation with Dr Kate Aughterson Index

Katy Shaw leads research into twenty-first century writings at Northumbria University, UK. Her research interests include contemporary literature, genre fiction and the languages of comedy. Katy is an expert in twenty-first century literature. She is a public intellectual, literary festival host, and media presenter.  Kate Aughterson is Principal Lecturer and Course Leader in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests include early modern drama, women writers, genre and rhetoric from Shakespeare, through Behn to Atwood and McBride.

• ‘Craceland’: An Introduction .-1 Pastoral Negativities and the Dynamics of the Storyteller in Jim Crace’s Harvest.-2 Pastoral Concerns in the Fictions of Jim Crace .-3 Ecocriticism and Jim Crace’s Early Novels .-4 ‘False patterns out of chaos’: Writing Beyond the Senseof an Ending in Being Dead and The Pesthouse .-5 A Different Kind of Wilderness: Decomposition and Life in Jim Crace’s Being Dead.-6 Absented Women’s Voices: Problematising Masculinity in Jim Crace’s Fiction .-7 The Bald and the Beautiful: The Figure of the Shaven-Headed Female in the Fiction of Jim Crace .-8 Searching for the Gleaning Fields: Gleaners and Leanness in Jim Crace’s Harvest .-9 Thinking Crace: Consciousness and Cognition in Jim Crace’s Quarantine and Being Dead .-10 Jim Crace: Inventor of Worlds  11 An Atheist’s Spirituality: Jim Crace’s Post-Religious Fiction .- 12 “Sentences with Wings”: Jim Crace in Conversation with Dr Kate Aughterson Index