| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 602 pages) : illustrations, 1 map |
| Contents |
Part I. Cosmologies -- Part II. The tangled chain -- Part III. Time and place -- Part IV. Interactions -- Part V. Environmental problems in early modern England -- Part VI. Disaster and relsilience in the Little Ice Age |
| Summary |
Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral heritage and industrialized future. Carefully selected primary sources, each modernized and prefaced with an introduction, survey an encyclopaedic array of topographies, species, and topics: from astrology to zoology, bear-baiting to bee-keeping, coal-mining to tree-planting, fen-draining to sheep-whispering. The familiar voices of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marvell mingle with a diverse chorus of farmers, herbalists, shepherds, hunters, foresters, philosophers, sailors, sky-watchers, and duchesses -- as well as ventriloquized beasts, trees, and rivers. Lavishly illustrated, the anthology is supported by a lucid introduction that outlines and intervenes in key debates in Renaissance ecocriticism, a reflective essay on ecocritical editing, a bibliography of further reading, and a timeline of environmental history and legislation drawing on extensive archival research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Todd A. Borlik is a Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Drama at the University of Huddersfield. His research interests include Shakespeare and the pre-history of environmentalism, magic and science, repertory and performance studies, and Global Shakespeare. He is the author of Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures and Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance: An Ecocritical Anthology, as well as over a dozen articles in journals such as Shakespeare, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, and English Literary Renaissance. He is currently preparing a monograph on representations of nature at the Rose and Globe |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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Nature -- Literary collections
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Natural history literature -- Great Britain
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Nature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Environmentalism in literature
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Natural history literature
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Nature in literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Borlik, Todd Andrew, editor
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| ISBN |
9781108224901 |
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1108224903 |
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1316510158 |
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9781316510155 |
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1316649539 |
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9781316649534 |
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