This article contributes an Australian perspective to this special issue’s exploration of the parameters of the emerging cross-disciplinary field of the environmental humanities, and its relationship to ecocriticism. In considering the worldly text as an articulation of the literature-place interface, we investigate how images and affects from Helen Garner's 1977 novel Monkey Grip influence understandings and formations of place in Melbourne, specifically how the text reflexively participates in processes of urban transformation in the city's iconic inner northern suburbs of Fitzroy and Carlton. It is an actor in the material production of place. The worldly text is more than a mirror or commentator on place. We call these types of literary texts the worldly text. Our objective here is to provide an account of how literature might produce place or more specifically, an account of how certain literary texts contribute to the production of place in material, and more-than-literary, ways. This essay is an intervention in disciplinary and interdisciplinary conceptualisations of literature and place where the text is positioned as a product of place. Journal: cultural geographies Manuscript ID CGJ-17-0076.R4 Manuscript Type: Article Abstract: Literature about place is frequently conceived by writers and readers as a response to, or a reproduction of, place.
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