Ground-work : English Renaissance literature and soil science /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Eklund, Hillary Caroline, 1977- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2017]
Series:	Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Nature in literature. Soil and civilization. Ecocriticism. Literature and science > England > History > 16th century. Literature and science > England > History > 17th century. English literature > Early modern. Literature and science. England. 1500-1700 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Toward a Renaissance Soil Science / Hillary Eklund
Compost/Composition / Frances E. Dolan
Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral / Tamsin Badcoe
Visions of Soil and Body Management: The Almanac in Richard II / Bonnie Lander Johnson
Unsoiled Soil and "Fleshly Slime": Representations of Reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity / Lindsay Ann Reid
Groping Golgotha: Soil Improvement in the Towneley and Chester Shepherds' Plays / Rob Wakeman
Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil / Keith M. Botelho
Fertility versus Firepower: Shakespeare's Contested Soil Ecologies / Randall Martin
Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England / Hillary Eklund
Manuring Eden: Biological Conversions in Paradise Lost / David B. Goldstein
Afterword / Sharon O'Dait.