Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts write by Jennifer Munroe. This book was released on 2016-03-09. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecocriticism has steadily gained footing within the larger arena of early modern scholarship, and with the publication of well over a dozen monographs, essay collections, and special journal issues, literary studies looks increasingly ’green’; yet the field lacks a straightforward, easy-to-use guide to do with reading and teaching early modern texts ecocritically. Accessible yet comprehensive, the cutting-edge collection Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts fills this gap. Organized around the notion of contact zones (or points of intersection, that have often been constructed asymmetrically-especially with regard to the human-nonhuman dichotomy), the volume reassesses current trends in ecocriticism and the Renaissance; introduces analyses of neglected texts and authors; brings ecocriticism into conversation with cognate fields and approaches (e.g., queer theory, feminism, post-coloniality, food studies); and offers a significant section on pedagogy, ecocriticism and early modern literature. Engaging points of tension and central interest in the field, the collection is largely situated in the 'and/or' that resides between presentism-historicism, materiality-literary, somatic-semiotic, nature-culture, and, most importantly, human-nonhuman. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts balances coverage and methodology; its primary goal is to provide useful, yet nuanced discussions of ecological approaches to reading and teaching a range of representative early modern texts. As a whole, the volume includes a diverse selection of chapters that engage the complex issues that arise when reading and teaching early modern texts from a green perspective.
Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts
Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts write by Jennifer Munroe. This book was released on 2015. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature
The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature write by Peter Remien. This book was released on 2019-02-14. The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural philosophy through the development of the protoecological concept of 'the oeconomy of nature'. Founded in 1644 by Kenelm Digby, this concept was subsequently employed by a number of theologians, physicians, and natural philosophers to conceptualize nature as an interdependent system. Focusing on the middle decades of the seventeenth century, Peter Remien examines how Samuel Gott, Walter Charleton, Robert Boyle, Samuel Collins, and Thomas Burnet formed the oeconomy of nature. Remien also shows how literary authors Ben Jonson, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, and John Milton use the discourse of oeconomy to explore the contours of humankind's relationship with the natural world. This book participates in an intellectual history of the science of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of how we understand the relationship between literature and ecology in the early modern period.
Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity
Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity write by J. Munroe. This book was released on 2011-11-16. Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings.
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature write by Todd A. Borlik. This book was released on 2011-05-11. Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate change, and animal sentience, are formative concerns in many early modern texts. The readings infuse a new urgency in familiar works by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Ralegh, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. At the same time, the book forecasts how ecocriticism will bolster the reputation of less canonical authors like Drayton, Wroth, Bruno, Gascoigne, and Cavendish. Its chapters trace provocative affinities between topics such as Pythagorean ecology and the Gaia hypothesis, Ovidian tropes and green phenomenology, the disenchantment of Nature and the Little Ice Age, and early modern pastoral poetry and modern environmental ethics. It also examines the ecological onus of Renaissance poetics, while showcasing how the Elizabethans’ sense of a sophisticated interplay between nature and art can provide a precedent for ecocriticism’s current understanding of the relationship between nature and culture as "mutually constructive." Situating plays and poems alongside an eclectic array of secondary sources, including herbals, forestry laws, husbandry manuals, almanacs, and philosophical treatises on politics and ethics, Borlik demonstrates that Elizabethan and Jacobean authors were very much aware of, and concerned about, the impact of human beings on their natural surroundings.
