| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Early modern cultural studies |
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Early modern cultural studies.
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Part I. Ecocriticism and early modern Europe : new approaches, maturing disciplines. Slow Shakespeare : an eco-critique of "method" in early modern literary studies / Sharon O'Dair -- Mute timber? : Fiscal forestry and environmental stichomythia in the Old Arcadia / Todd Andrew Borlik -- Defining nature through monstrosity in Othello and Macbeth / Georgia Brown -- Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare / Simon C. Estok -- How to do things with animals : thoughts on/with the early modern cat / Karen Raber -- Utopian ecocriticism : naturalizing nature in Thomas More's Utopia / Ivo Kamps and Melissa L. Smith -- Summer's lease : Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age / Robert Markley -- Part II. The spirit and the flesh : the implications of religion for early modern nature. Anima-tion at Little Gidding : thoughtful inconsistency as ecological ethos in an early modern Bible harmony / Nicholas Johnson -- An ecocritical evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex / Millie Gimmel -- Meditation on the creatures : ecoliterary uses of an ancient tradition / John Gatta -- The pomology of Eden : apple culture and early New England poetry / Michael Ziser -- Part III. Nature and empire. Delight is a slave to dominion : awakening to empire with Richard Ligon's History / Anthony Lioi -- "The archeologists made observations that conjured up interesting mental pictures" : De Soto, narrative scholarship, and place / Thomas Hallock -- Imagining the forest : longleaf pine ecosystems in Spanish and English writings of the southeast, 1542-1709 / E. Thomson Shields, Jr. -- Would Thomas More have wanted to go to Mars? Colonial promotion and bio-power / Timothy Sweet |
| Summary |
Annotation The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecocriticism -- History
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Nature in literature.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Ecocriticism
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Environmental protection in literature
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Nature in literature
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hallock, Thomas, editor.
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Kamps, Ivo, editor.
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Raber, Karen, 1961- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780230617940 |
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0230617948 |
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1349372358 |
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9781349372355 |
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0230604617 |
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9780230604612 |
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