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Ground-Work : English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science /

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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Other Authors: Wakeman, Rob (Contributor), Reid, Lindsay Ann (Contributor), O'Dair, Sharon (Contributor), Martin, Randall (Contributor), Johnson, Bonnie Lander (Contributor), Goldstein, David B. (Contributor), Eklund, Hillary (Editor, Contributor), Dolan, Frances E. (Contributor), Botelho, Keith M. (Contributor), Badcoe, Tamsin (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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