The concept of nature in early modern English literature /
The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural philosophy through the development of the protoecological concept of 'the oeconomy of nature'. Founded in 1644 by Kenelm Digby, this concept was subsequently...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Oeconomy and ecology
- The oeconomy of nature in seventeenth-century England
- Penshurst's parasites: Ben Jonson and the art of bad housekeeping
- The school of beasts: human and animal dwellings in Viret and Marvell
- Divine husbandry: providence and oikonomia in the works of George Herbert
- Labors of luxury: John Milton, Thomas Burnet, and the nature of human labor
- Epilogue: From economy to ecology.