| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Walker Cowen Memorial Prize |
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Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: "Usufruct" and the Eighteenth Century in Environmental Criticism -- 1. The Usufructuary Ethos: Roots and Branches -- 2. Trees, Posterity, and the Socio-Environmental Landlord -- 3. Pope and the Usufructuary Ethics of the "Use of Riches" -- 4. Monocultures, Georgics, and the Transformation of the Usufructuary Ethos -- Conclusion: The Usufructuary Ethos-Legacies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Recent Winners of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize |
| Summary |
"The Usufructuary Ethos traces an overlooked thread of environmental thought from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteeenth-century poems of colonial commerce, attending to the particular political, economic, and environmental pressures that shaped, transformed, and ultimately sidelined it"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies." |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2021) |
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Environmentalism in literature.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Britain
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Ecocriticism -- Great Britain
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Ecocriticism
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Environmentalism in literature
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Literature and society
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020051267 |
| ISBN |
9780813945811 |
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081394581X |
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