1st Edition
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination
By Heide Estes
Copyright 2017
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf and Judith , as well as descriptions of natural... Read more
1: Introduction 2: Imagining the Sea in Secular and Religious Poetry 3: Ruined Landscapes 4: Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness 5: Animal Natures 6: Objects and Hyperobjects 7: Conclusion: Ecologies of the Past and the Future
Biography
Heide Estes is Professor of English at Monmouth University. She has published Old and Middle English language and literature, focusing on sexuality and gender, the reception of Jews, and disability. She is editor with Haruko Momma of Old English Across the Curriculum: Contexts and Pedagogies, a special issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching forthcoming in 2016. She is founder of the scholarly group Medieval Ecocriticisms.
