1st Edition
Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature Green Pastures
By Todd A. Borlik
Copyright 2011
292 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this timely new study, Todd A. 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... Read more
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Reincarnating Pythagoras: Anima Mundi and Renaissance Gaia Theory 2: Mute Timber?; Environmental Stichomythia in The Old Arcadia and Poly-Olbion 3: The Reformation and the Disenchantment of Nature 4: "Hast Any Philosophy In Thee, Shepherd?": Environmental Ethics and the Good Life in Renaissance Pastoral 5: Rethinking Dominion: Pastoral and the Republic of Nature Conclusion: Ecocriticism as a Version of the Pastoral Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Todd A. Borlik is Assistant Professor of English at Bloomsburg University, USA.
