‘The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice’ by Denys Van Renen

‘The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice’ by Denys Van Renen

The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice, written by Denys Van Renen, has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This blog post, by the author, highlights its intervention as the first book-length study to analyze the genre of the picaresque as drawing attention to how the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century iterations of it respond to environmental disasters. Ultimately, the economic precari…