Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts

Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts
Title Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts PDF eBook
Author Dr Lynne Bruckner
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 281
Release 2015-08-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1472416724

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Within early modern scholarship, ecocriticism has steadily gained footing, and early modern literary studies looks increasingly 'green'; yet the field lacks an accessible collection on reading and teaching early modern texts ecocritically. Filling this gap in the literature, this book 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
Title Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Munroe
Publisher Routledge
Pages 275
Release 2016-03-09
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317146352

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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.

Early Modern Écologies

Early Modern Écologies
Title Early Modern Écologies PDF eBook
Author Pauline Goul
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2020
Genre Ecocriticism
ISBN 9789462985971

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1. It asks not what ecological thought can do for early modern literature, but vice-versa. 2. It brings a specifically Francophone focus to the dialogue between early modern literature and eco-theory. 3. It gathers work from some of the most respected scholars in French Studies, but also from several younger scholars within the field.

An Environmental History of the Early Modern Period

An Environmental History of the Early Modern Period
Title An Environmental History of the Early Modern Period PDF eBook
Author Martin Knoll
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Pages 105
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 3643904630

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The environmental history of early modern times is a seminal and lively field of historical research. This volume offers ten concise essays that provide an overview of current research debates on a broad span of topics, such as historical climatology and climate reconstruction, coping with disaster, land use and agricultural knowledge, forest history, urbanization, the perceptions of (alpine) nature, and societal dealings with water and rivers. Taken together, the contributions establish early modern studies as a promising laboratory for new avenues in environmental history. (Series: Austria: Research and Science - History / Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Geschichte - Vol. 10) [Subject: History, Environmental Studies]

The Unending Frontier

The Unending Frontier
Title The Unending Frontier PDF eBook
Author John F. Richards
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 704
Release 2003-05-15
Genre History
ISBN 9780520230750

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Ground-Work

Ground-Work
Title Ground-Work PDF eBook
Author Hillary Eklund
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 331
Release 2017-03-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0271093536

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How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now.

The Environmental Tradition in English Literature

The Environmental Tradition in English Literature
Title The Environmental Tradition in English Literature PDF eBook
Author John Parham
Publisher Routledge
Pages 417
Release 2017-03-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351890654

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Drawing upon the English literary tradition for new perspectives and paradigms, this collection presents a broad range of theoretical and historical approaches to ecocriticism. The first section of the volume offers different theoretical frameworks for ecocritical work, encompassing a range of socio-political, post-modern and multi-disciplinary approaches. In the second section, contributors explore the ways in which ecocriticism allows us to re-think literary history.