Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
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In contemporary Anglophone non-fiction, writers have increasingly taken to describing their personal experiences of rewilding. It is in fictional works, however, that we historically find the most visionary approach to rewilding, from William Morris’s utopian romance News from Nowhere (1890) to Diane Setterfield’s neo-Victorian novel Once Upon a River (2018). In comparing these two works, one of them written in and the other set in the late nineteenth century, this essay notes their respective authors’ shared concerns to dismantle ontological priorities, establish new partnerships, and build futures based on social and environmental justice. In so doing, the two writers understand the importance of storytelling in imagining what a rewilded future might mean, and in encouraging us to work towards achieving a rewilded world.
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@article{Bennett2026Wild,
title = {Wild Belongings: Stories of Rewilding in William Morris’s News from Nowhere and Diane Setterfield’s Once Upon a River},
author = {Phillippa Bennett},
journal = {Green Letters},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1080/14688417.2026.2733353},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2026.2733353}
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