Literature And Nature In The English Renaissance

Author : Todd Andrew Borlik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316649539

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Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance by Todd Andrew Borlik Pdf

Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral heritage and industrialized future. Carefully selected primary sources, each modernized and prefaced with an introduction, survey an encyclopaedic array of topographies, species, and topics: from astrology to zoology, bear-baiting to bee-keeping, coal-mining to tree-planting, fen-draining to sheep-whispering. The familiar voices of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marvell mingle with a diverse chorus of farmers, herbalists, shepherds, hunters, foresters, philosophers, sailors, sky-watchers, and duchesses - as well as ventriloquized beasts, trees, and rivers. Lavishly illustrated, the anthology is supported by a lucid introduction that outlines and intervenes in key debates in Renaissance ecocriticism, a reflective essay on ecocritical editing, a bibliography of further reading, and a timeline of environmental history and legislation drawing on extensive archival research.

Author : Todd Andrew Borlik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108247009

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Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance by Todd Andrew Borlik Pdf

Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral heritage and industrialized future. Carefully selected primary sources, each modernized and prefaced with an introduction, survey an encyclopaedic array of topographies, species, and topics: from astrology to zoology, bear-baiting to bee-keeping, coal-mining to tree-planting, fen-draining to sheep-whispering. The familiar voices of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marvell mingle with a diverse chorus of farmers, herbalists, shepherds, hunters, foresters, philosophers, sailors, sky-watchers, and duchesses - as well as ventriloquized beasts, trees, and rivers. Lavishly illustrated, the anthology is supported by a lucid introduction that outlines and intervenes in key debates in Renaissance ecocriticism, a reflective essay on ecocritical editing, a bibliography of further reading, and a timeline of environmental history and legislation drawing on extensive archival research.

Author : Linda Woodbridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106007854646

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Women and the English Renaissance by Linda Woodbridge Pdf

Author : Robert Watson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204254

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Back to Nature by Robert Watson Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Sweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological and epistemological anxieties were conjoined twins. Urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, revived Skepticism, empirical science, and optical technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself in the seventeenth century. Literary and visual arts explored the resulting cultural wounds, expressing the pain and proposing some ingenious cures. The stakes, Robert N. Watson demonstrates, were huge. Shakespeare's comedies, Marvell's pastoral lyrics, Traherne's visionary Centuries, and Dutch painting all illuminate a fierce submerged debate about what love of nature has to do with perception of reality.

Author : R. S. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521481427

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Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature by R. S. White Pdf

Natural law, whether grounded in human reason or divine edict, encourages men to follow virtue and shun vice. The concept dominated Renaissance thought, where its literary equivalent, poetic justice, underpinned much of the period's creative writing. R. S. White's study examines a wide range of Renaissance texts, by More, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare and Milton, in the light of these developing ideas of Natural Law. It shows how writers as radically different as Aquinas and Hobbes formulated versions of Natural Law which served to maintain socially established hierarchies. For Aquinas, Natural Law always resided in the individual's conscience, whereas Hobbes thought individuals had limited access to virtue and therefore needed to be coerced into doing good by the state. White shows how the very flexibility and antiquity of Natural Law enabled its appropriation and application by thinkers of all political persuasions in a debate that raged throughout the Renaissance and which continues in our own time.

Author : Joshua Calhoun
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812251890

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The Nature of the Page by Joshua Calhoun Pdf

In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a story of corruption and the hope that we can preserve the things we love from decay. Combining environmental and bibliographical research with deft literary analysis, Calhoun reveals how much we have left to discover in familiar texts. He describes the transformation of plant material into a sheet of paper, details how ecological availability or scarcity influenced literary output in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines the impact of the various colors and qualities of paper on early modern reading practices. Through a discussion of sizing—the mixture used to coat the surface of paper so that ink would not blot into its fibers—he reveals a surprising textual interaction between animals and readers. He shows how we might read an indistinct stain on the page of an early modern book to better understand the mixed media surfaces on which readers, writers, and printers recorded and revised history. Lastly, Calhoun considers how early modern writers imagined paper decay and how modern scholars grapple with biodeterioration today. Exploring the poetic interplay between human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which they are mediated, The Nature of the Page prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.

Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349040728

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Images and Ideas in Literature of the English Renaissance by Patrick Grant Pdf

Author : Wendy Beth Hyman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754695196

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The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature by Wendy Beth Hyman Pdf

This volume features original essays exploring the automaton - from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine - in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Author : Allen G. Debus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521293286

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Man and Nature in the Renaissance by Allen G. Debus Pdf

An introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phrases of the scientific revolution.

Author : Todd A. Borlik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136741807

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Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature by Todd A. Borlik Pdf

In this timely new study, 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.

Author : Ken Hiltner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801461243

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What Else Is Pastoral? by Ken Hiltner Pdf

Pastoral was one of the most popular literary forms of early modern England. Inspired by classical and Italian Renaissance antecedents, writers from Ben Jonson to John Beaumont and Abraham Cowley wrote in idealized terms about the English countryside. It is often argued that the Renaissance pastoral was a highly figurative mode of writing that had more to do with culture and politics than with the actual countryside of England. For decades now literary criticism has had it that in pastoral verse, hills and crags and moors were extolled for their metaphoric worth, rather than for their own qualities. In What Else Is Pastoral? Ken Hiltner takes a fresh look at pastoral, offering an environmentally minded reading that reconnects the poems with literal landscapes, not just figurative ones. Considering the pastoral in literature from Virgil and Petrarch to Jonson and Milton, Hiltner proposes a new ecocritical approach to these texts. We only become truly aware of our environment, he explains, when its survival is threatened. As London expanded rapidly during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the city and surrounding rural landscapes began to look markedly different. Hiltner finds that Renaissance writers were acutely aware that the countryside they had known was being lost to air pollution, deforestation, and changing patterns of land use; their works suggest this new absence of nature through their appreciation for the scraps that remained in memory or in fact. A much-needed corrective to the prevailing interpretation of pastoral poetry, What Else Is Pastoral? shows the value of reading literature with an ecological eye.

Author : Thomas Willard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503590446

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Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Thomas Willard Pdf

The environment--together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world--has become a major focus of pre-modern studies. The thirteen contributions in this volume discuss topics across the millennium in Europe from the late 600s to the early 1600s. They introduce applications to older texts, art works, and ideas made possible by relatively new fields of discourse such as animal studies, ecotheology, and Material Engagement Theory. From studies of medieval land charters and epics to the canticles sung in churches, the encyclopedic natural histories compiled for the learned, the hunting parks described and illustrated for the aristocracy, chronicles from the New World, classical paintings from the Old World, and the plays of Shakespeare, the authors engage with the human responses to nature in times when it touched their lives more intimately than it does for people today, even though this contact raised concerns that are still very much alive today.

Author : Hillary Eklund
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271093536

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Ground-Work by Hillary Eklund Pdf

How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now.

Author : Peter Remien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108496810

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The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature by Peter Remien Pdf

Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110444889

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Handbook of English Renaissance Literature by Ingo Berensmeyer Pdf

This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.