Jim Crace: Into the Wilderness

'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 Sense of 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