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...
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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, a
Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington, 2008, under title: Green pastures : ecocriticism and early modern English literature
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Reincarnating Pythagoras: Anima Mundi and Renaissance Gaia Theory; 2 Mute Timber?: Environmental Stichomythia in The Old Arcadia and Poly-Olbion; 3 The Reformation and the Disenchantment of Nature; 4 "Hast any Philosophy in Thee, Shepherd?": Environmental Ethics and the Good Life in Renaissance Pastoral; 5 Rethinking Dominion: Pastoral and the Republic of Nature; Conclusion: Ecocriticism as Version of the Pastoral; Notes; Bibliography; Index