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This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare.

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'For those of us who turn to him for intellectual provocation, this book is a more-than-welcome contribution to Shakespeare scholarship, to ecocriticism, and to critical theory.' - Dan Brayton, Middlebury College, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment

<p> In this thorough and original study, Estok widens the scope of ecological criticism in two ways. Estok contributes to the emerging field of early modern ecological studies in an excellent investigation of Shakespeare and outlines a theory of ecophobia, tracing its genesis through gender and psychoanalytic thinking. Estok challenges us to think deeply about ecology, theory, and culture. --Timothy Morton, Professor of English, University of California Davis and author of The Ecological Thought <p> In this ecology of reading and reading of ecology, Estok moves beyond the earlier studies of nature in Shakespeare to an important exploration of reading and representation that addresses the crisis in our environment and that provides another way to understand and resist alienation and stereotyping. --Jonathan Hart, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Alberta<p> A fresh and theoretically sophisticated analysis of Shakespearean drama through the lens of ecophob

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Simon C. Estok is an associate Professor and Junior Fellow (2011-2014) in the Department of English at Sungkyunkwan University.

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