Writing the Forest in Early Modern England : A Sylvan Pastoral Nation /

"An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism"--Provided by pu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Theis, Jeffrey S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, 2009.
Series:Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ecocriticism.
Environmentalism > England > History > 17th century.
Environmentalism > England > History > 16th century.
Environmentalism in literature.
Forests in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Pastoral literature, English > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The rise of sylvan pastoral: literary form meets forest history
  • Shakespeare's green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it
  • Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night's dream and sylvan struggle
  • A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of Windsor
  • Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms
  • Royalist woods
  • John Milton's sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual.

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