The usufructuary ethos : power, politics, and environment in the long eighteenth century /

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"The Usufructuary Ethos traces an overlooked thread of environmental thought from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteeenth-century poems of colonial commerce, attending to the particular political, economic, and environmental pressures that shaped, tra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Drew, Erin E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Colección:Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
Temas:
1600-1799
Environmentalism in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Great Britain.
Ecocriticism > Great Britain.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Grande-Bretagne.
Écocritique > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ecocriticism.
Literature and society.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction: "Usufruct" and the Eighteenth Century in Environmental Criticism
  • 1. The Usufructuary Ethos: Roots and Branches
  • 2. Trees, Posterity, and the Socio-Environmental Landlord
  • 3. Pope and the Usufructuary Ethics of the "Use of Riches"
  • 4. Monocultures, Georgics, and the Transformation of the Usufructuary Ethos
  • Conclusion: The Usufructuary Ethos-Legacies
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Recent Winners of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize

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