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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 writer...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goul, Pauline (Editor ), Usher, Phillip John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
Colección:Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.
Temas:
1500-1599
French literature > 16th century > History and criticism.
Ecocriticism > France.
Ecocriticism in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Littérature française > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écocritique > France.
Écocritique dans la littérature.
Nature dans la littérature.
Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800.
Environmentalist thought and ideology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Ecocriticism.
French literature.
France.
Early Modern.
Ecology.
Latour.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Pauline Goul and Phillip John Usher
  • 1. Off the Human Track: Montaigne, Deleuze, and the Materialization of Philosophy
  • Hassan Melehy
  • Part 1: Dark(Ish) Ecologies
  • 2. Du Bartas Responding to Morton's Milton: A Bodily Route to the Ecological Thought
  • Stephanie Shiflett
  • 3. 'When is a meadow not a meadow?': Dark Ecology and Fields of Conflict in French Renaissance Poetry
  • Jennifer Oliver
  • 4. Equipment for Living with Hyperobjects: Proverbs in Ronsard's Franciade
  • Kat Addis
  • 5. Is Ecology Absurd? Diogenes and the End of Civilization
  • Pauline Goul
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 2: Nature's Cultures
  • 6. Between Nature and Culture: The Integrated Ecology of Renaissance Climate Theories
  • Sara Miglietti
  • 7. Almost Encountering Ronsard's Rose
  • Phillip John Usher
  • 8. Renascent Nature in the Ruins: Joachim du Bellay's Antiquitez de Rome
  • Victor Velázquez
  • Part 3: Groundings
  • 9. An Inconvenient Bodin: Latour and the Treasure Seekers
  • Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri
  • 10. Reading Olivier de Serres circa 1600: Between Economy and Ecology
  • Tom Conley
  • 11. Montaigne's Plants in Movement
  • Antónia Szabari
  • Epilogue
  • Louisa Mackenzie
  • Index
  • List of Illustrations
  • Figure 1: Dissection of the abdomen. Source: Mercure Jollat, in: Charles Estienne, De Dissectione partium corporis (Paris: Simonem Colinaeum, 1545), p. 172. Image from Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).
  • Figure 2: Frontispiece from Olivier de Serres, Le Théâtre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs (Paris: Jamet Mettayer, 1600). Image from Houghton Library, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).
  • Figure 3: Diagram of the structure of the 'Premier Lieu' in Olivier de Serres, Le Théâtre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs, p. 15.
  • Figure 4: Title page of the 'Premier Lieu', from Olivier de Serres, Le Théâtre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs, p. 16.
  • Figure 5: Woodcut illustration at the head of the 'Sixième Lieu' in Olivier de Serres, Le Théâtre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs, p. 497.
  • Figure 6: Hypothetical garden from the 'Sixième Lieu', from Olivier de Serres, Le Théâtre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs, pp. 604-605.

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