Bestial oblivion : war, humanism, and ecology in early modern England /

Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how ear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bertram, Benjamin, 1967- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2018.
Series:	Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. War in literature. Humanism in literature. Ecology in literature. War and society > Great Britain > History.

Table of Contents:

Erasmus and the dung beetle; or, human exceptionalism and its discontents
Machiavelli, virtue, and the ecology of war
Iron men: Thomas Digges, a larum for London, and the Elizabethan cyborg
War and resilience: Tamburlaine the Great and the Anglo-Spanish War
Bestial oblivion in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Thomas Coryate, the lousy humanist
Humanity under siege: francis Bacon's human empire and the Capitalocene.