Literature and nature in the English Renaissance : an ecocritical anthology /
Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral heritage and industrialized future. Carefull...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Summary: | Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral heritage and industrialized future. Carefully selected primary sources, each modernized and prefaced with an introduction, survey an encyclopaedic array of topographies, species and topics, from astrology to zoology, bear-baiting to bee-keeping, coal-mining to tree-planting, fen-draining to sheep-whispering. The familiar voices of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Marvell mingle with a diverse chorus of farmers, herbalists, shepherds, hunters, foresters, philosophers, sailors, skywatchers and duchesses, as well as ventriloquized beasts, trees and rivers. Lavishly illustrated, the anthology is supported by a lucid introduction that outlines and intervenes in key debates in Renaissance ecocriticism, a reflective essay on ecocritical editing, a bibliography of further reading and a timeline of environmental history and legislation drawing on extensive archival research. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-602) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316510155 1316510158 |