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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 atten...

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Autres auteurs: Wakeman, Rob (Collaborateur), Reid, Lindsay Ann (Collaborateur), O'Dair, Sharon (Collaborateur), Martin, Randall (Collaborateur), Johnson, Bonnie Lander (Collaborateur), Goldstein, David B. (Collaborateur), Eklund, Hillary (Éditeur intellectuel, Collaborateur), Dolan, Frances E. (Collaborateur), Botelho, Keith M. (Collaborateur), Badcoe, Tamsin (Collaborateur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Soil and civilization.
Nature in literature.
Literature and science > England > History > 17th century.
Literature and science > England > History > 16th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Ecocriticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction:
  • 1. Compost/Composition
  • 2. Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral
  • 3. Visions of Soil and Body Management:
  • 4. Unsoiled Soil and "Fleshly Slime":
  • 5. Groping Golgotha:
  • 6. Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil
  • 7. Fertility versus Firepower:
  • 8. Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England
  • 9. Manuring Eden:
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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