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Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures

Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures

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Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 16

Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0415878616
ISBN13: 9780415878616
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 2 2010
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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