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Subject(s)

• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• Pastoral literature, English—History and criticism [Browse]
• Ecology in literature [Browse]
• Nature in literature [Browse]
• Philosophy of nature in literature [Browse]
• Ecocriticism [Browse]
• Philosophy of nature—England—History—16th century [Browse]
• Philosophy of nature—England—History—17th century [Browse]
• Environmentalism—England—History—16th century [Browse]
• Environmentalism—England—History—17th century [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 16. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 16 [More in this series]

Notes

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington, 2008, under title: Green pastures : ecocriticism and early modern English literature.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Reincarnating Pythagoras: anima mundi and Renaissance gaia theory
• Mute timber: environmental stichomythia in The old Arcadia and Poly-Olbion
• The reformation and the disenchantment of nature
• "Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?": environmental ethics and the good life in Renaissance pastoral
• Rethinking dominion: pastoral and the republic of nature
• Conclusion: ecocriticism as a version of the pastoral.

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Other title(s)

Green pastures

ISBN

• 9780415636681 (pbk.)
• 9780415878616
• 0415878616

LCCN

2010022455

OCLC

641998728

Other standard number

• 40018696883

RCP

C - S

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