1st Edition

Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon Rethinking Cosmopolis

By Elizabeth Gruber Copyright 2017
188 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has not been true of ecocriticism. This is partly because, until recently, most ecologically minded writers have located the origins of ecological crisis in the Enlightenment, with the legacies of the Cartesian cogito singled out as a particular cause of our current... Read more

Introduction: "The Making and Unmaking of Cosmopolis



Chapter One: "Nature’s ‘Black Intelligencer’": The Ecopolitics of Alienation in Richard III



Chapter Two: "Building the Necropolis: Killing Mother/Nature in The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus"



Chapter Three: "Nature on the Verge Confronting ‘Bare Life’ in Arden of Faversham and King Lear"



Chapter Four: "Vexing Pleasure: The Ecopolitics of Erotism in Measure for Measure and Tis Pity She’s a Whore"



Chapter Five: "Disenchanting Nature: Macbeth’s Anti-Green Epistemology"



Chapter Six: "‘Desolate Strangers’: Vulnerability and Despair in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis"

Biography

Elizabeth Gruber is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Lock Haven University