Literature and nature in the English Renaissance an ecocritical anthology /
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. Carefull...
| Other Authors: | Borlik, Todd Andrew, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
xxi, 602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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| 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. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-602). Part I: Cosmologies. Creation and the state of nature -- Natural theologies -- Part II: The tangled chain. Hierarchy and the human animal -- Beasts -- Birds -- Fish -- Insects -- Plants -- Gems, metals, elements, atoms -- Part III: Time and place. Seasons -- Country houses -- Gardens -- Pastoral: pastures, meadows, plains, downs -- Georgic: fields, farms -- Forests, woods, parks -- Heaths, moors -- Mountains, hills, vales -- Lakes , rivers, oceans -- Part IV: Interactions. Animal-baiting ; Hunting, hawking -- Fishing -- Pet-keeping -- Cooking, feasting, fasting, healing -- Part V: Environmental problems in early modern England. Population -- Enclosure -- Deforestation -- The draining of the fens -- Pollution -- Part VI: Disaster and resilience in the Little Ice Age . Extreme weather, disorder, dearth -- Decay -- Resilience. 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. |
| Physical Description: |
xxi, 602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-602). |
| ISBN: |
9781316510155 1316510158 |