Overview

Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings.

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Author:   J. Munroe ,  R. Laroche
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.455kg
ISBN:  

9780230115125

ISBN 10:   0230115128
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   16 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword; M.O'Connor  & S.Mendelson   Introduction; J.Munroe & R.Laroche   PART I: RETHINKING THE FAMILIAR: THE WOMAN-NATURE CONNECTION Nature and the Difference 'She' Makes; L.Bruckner  First 'Mother of Science': Milton's Eve, Knowledge, and Nature; J.Munroe   Ecofeminist Eve: Illustrators Reading Milton's Heroine; W.Furman-Adams   PART II: RETHINKING THE 'ECOFEMINIST' IN EARLY MODERN DOMESTIC PRACTICE On the 'Oil of Swallows': Early Modern Women's Material Practice of Medicine and the Reliability of the Textual Record; M.DiMeo  & R.Laroche   Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Hannah Woolley's Material Politics; D.Goldstein  Preserving Nature: in Hannah Woolley's The Queen-Like Closet; or Rich Cabinet ; A.Tigner  PART III: RE-THINKING/RE-READING THE LANDSCAPE 'Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers': The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham's Book of Remembrance ; H.Nunn  Grafting and Graffiti in Wroth's Urania ; M.Jacobson  & V.Nardizzi  Language 'like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass': Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague ;  E.Bowles   Afterword; R.Bushnell

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<p> This is an important collection. The editors make a powerful case for the centrality of a revised ecofeminism to both feminist and ecocritical scholarship. And in support of their project, they have assembled a first-rate collection of original essays that are grounded in meticulous historical research and subtle textual analysis and informed by mindful attention to present experience and its political implications. --Phyllis Rackin, professor emerita of English, University of Pennsylvania<p> Expands and updates an essential field within environmental scholarship. Moving beyond ideological abstractions, it pays illuminating attention to the particularities of life, especially women's lives. --Robert N. Watson, Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA and author of Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance <p> [This book] is at once an homage to Sylvia Bowerbank's Speaking for Nature and a passionately engaged critique of prevailing assumptions about ecocr

Author Information

JENNIFER MUNROE Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. REBECCA LAROCHE Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA.

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