Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare

by I. Kamps, K. Raber, Kenneth A. Loparo

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349372355
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/13/2009
Series:	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

IVO KAMPS is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.

KAREN L. RABER is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.

THOMAS HALLOCK is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA.

Table of Contents

PART I: ECOCRITICISM AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE: NEW APPROACHES, MATURING DISCIPLINES 'Slow Shakespeare; or, Reversing our Crimes Against Nature'; S.O'Dair 'Mute Timber? Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia'; T.Borlik 'Defining Nature Through Monstrosity'; G.Brown 'Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare'; S.Estok 'How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat'; K.Raber 'Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More's Utopia'; I.Kamps & M.L.Smith 'Summer's Lease: Shakespeare (and Others) in the Little Ice Age'; R.Markley PART II: THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH: THE IMPLICATIONS OF RELIGION FOR EARLY MODERN NATURE 'Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Life-Giving Across the Species Barrier in an Early Modern Bible Harmony'; N.Johnson 'An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex'; M.Gimmel 'Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition'; J.Gatta 'The Pomology of Eden: Apple Culture and Early New England Poetry'; M.G.Ziser PART III: NATURE AND EMPIRE 'Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon's History'; A.Lioi 'Searching for De Soto: Narrative Scholarship, Ecocriticism, and the Problems of Place'; T.Hallock 'Imagining the Forest: Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Spanish and English Writings of the Southeast, 1542-1709'; E.Thomson Shields 'Would Thomas More Have Wanted to Go To Mars? The Eco-economy of Colonial Promotion Literature'; T.Sweet

Editorial Reviews

'Sucha richly diverse book offers a sense of the range and promise of ecocriticism.' -Ecozon@

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