Ecocriticism and early modern English literature: green pastures (Record no. 37487)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780415636681 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 820.936 |
| Item number | BOR/E |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Borlik, Todd Andrew |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ecocriticism and early modern English literature: green pastures |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Routledge |
| Year of publication | 2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii,279p. |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington, 2008, under title: Green pastures : ecocriticism and early modern English literature. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 quality, climate change, and animal sentience, are formative concerns in many early modern texts. The readings infuse a new urgency in familiar works by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Ralegh, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. At the same time, the book forecasts how ecocriticism will bolster the reputation of less canonical authors like Drayton, Wroth, Bruno, Gascoigne, and Cavendish. Its chapters trace provocative affinities between topics such as Pythagorean ecology and the Gaia hypothesis, Ovidian tropes and green phenomenology, the disenchantment of Nature and the Little Ice Age, and early modern pastoral poetry and modern environmental ethics. It also examines the ecological onus of Renaissance poetics, while showcasing how the Elizabethans’ sense of a sophisticated interplay between nature and art can provide a precedent for ecocriticism’s current understanding of the relationship between nature and culture as "mutually constructive." Situating plays and poems alongside an eclectic array of secondary sources, including herbals, forestry laws, husbandry manuals, almanacs, and philosophical treatises on politics and ethics, Borlik demonstrates that Elizabethan and Jacobean authors were very much aware of, and concerned about, the impact of human beings on their natural surroundings. |
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| Topical Term | English literature |
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| Topical Term | Pastoral literature, English |
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| Topical Term | Ecology in literature |
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| Topical Term | Nature in literature |
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| Topical Term | Philosophy of nature in literature |
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| Topical Term | Ecocriticism |
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| Topical Term | Philosophy of nature |
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| Topical Term | Environmentalism |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 15/01/2016 | 820.936 BOR/E | 37519 | BK |