1st Edition

Early Modern Écologies Beyond English Ecocriticism

Edited By Pauline Goul Copyright 2020
310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of humans as being ‘masters and possessors of Nature’ in the seventeenth century, the writers taken up in this volume arguably demonstrated a more complex and urgent understanding of the human relationship to... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Off the Human Track: Montaigne, Deleuze, and the Materialization of Philosophy, Part 1 Dark(Ish) Ecologies, Part 2 Nature’s Cultures, Part 3 Groundings, Epilogue, Index, List of Illustrations

Biography

Pauline Goul is Assistant Professor of French Literature at The George Washington University. She specializes in early modern French literature and environmental criticism, and she has published pieces in the >Forum for Modern Languages Studies> and in volumes such as >Global Garbage> and >French Ecocriticism>. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively entitled >The Anxiety of Waste: New World, Environment and Literature in Renaissance France>.
Phillip John Usher is Associate Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture and of Comparative Literature at New York University, where he is also Chair of the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture. He is the author, translator, or editor of nine volumes. His most recent monograph is >Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene> (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019).