Premodern ecologies in the modern literary imagination / edited by Vin Nardizzi and Tiffany Jo Werth

"Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practic...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Nardizzi, Vincent Joseph, 1978- (Editor), Werth, Tiffany Jo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Environment reading: Premodern literature in its places / Robert Allen Rouse
  • Introduction: Oecologies: Engaging the world, from here / Vin Nardizzi, Tiffany Jo Werth
  • The love of life: Reading Sir Gawain and the green knight close to home / Jeffrey J. Cohen
  • Backyard / Patricia Badir
  • Bold riparian schemes: Imagining water and the hydrosocial cycle across time and space / Louise Noble
  • Distemperature in A midsummer night's dream / Sarah Crover
  • Biodynamic viticulture, natural wine, and the premodern / Frances E. Dolan
  • Sustainability / Louisa Mackenzie
  • Consuming debt / Sharon O'Dair
  • Failure / David K. Coley
  • A singular world: The perils and possibilities of the bird's-eye view / Sandra Young
  • Liquids and solids: Indigeneity as capricious matter in William Colenso's colonial encounters / Scott R. MacKenzie
  • Ruined medievalism / David Matthews
  • Tangled history: Nature, nation, and Canadian neomedievalism / J. Allan Mitchell
  • Afterword: Environmentalism, eco-cosmopolitanism and premodern thought / Ursula K. Heise.