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Power to the People: Renewable Energy in Brenda Vale’s Albion and other Literary Utopias (2015)
Book Chapter
Hunt, S. E. (2015). Power to the People: Renewable Energy in Brenda Vale’s Albion and other Literary Utopias. In P. A. Farca (Ed.), Energy in Literature: Essays on energy and its social and environmental implications in twentieth and twenty-first century literary texts. Oxford: TrueHeart Press

Brenda Vale has been a leading exponent of alternative technology and green architecture since the 1970s. This essay situates her only novel, Albion (1982), within a genre of libertarian utopian literature which includes William Morris’s News from No... Read More about Power to the People: Renewable Energy in Brenda Vale’s Albion and other Literary Utopias.

Friends of our captivity: nature, terror and refugia in romantic women's literature (2008)
Book Chapter
Hunt, S. E. (2008). Friends of our captivity: nature, terror and refugia in romantic women's literature. In T. G. Reus, & A. Usandizaga (Eds.), Inside Out Women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space (273-296). Amsterdam: Rodopi

This essay explores the way that four Romantic women writers confronted perilous situations involving physical captivity, personal trauma and depression through engagement with the natural world. Mary Robinson and Charlotte Smith accompanied their hu... Read More about Friends of our captivity: nature, terror and refugia in romantic women's literature.

Wandering lonely: Women's access to the English romantic countryside (2000)
Book Chapter
Hunt, S. E. (2000). Wandering lonely: Women's access to the English romantic countryside. In J. Tallmadge, & H. Harrington (Eds.), Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (51-63). Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press