Overview

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 attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now.

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Author:   Hillary Eklund
Publisher:   Duquesne University Press
Imprint:   Duquesne University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780820704999

ISBN 10:   0820704997
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   28 March 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Renaissance Soil Science, Hillary Eklund Compost/Composition, Frances E. Dolan Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral, Tamsin Badcoe Visions of Soil and Body Management: The Almanac in Richard II, Bonnie Lander Johnson Unsoiled Soil and ""Fleshly Slime"": Representations of Reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity, Lindsay Ann Reid Groping Golgotha: Soil Improvement in the Towneley and Chesters Shepherds' Plays, Rob Wakeman Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil, Keith M. Botelho Fertility versus Firepower: Shakespeare's Contested Soil Ecologies, Randal Martin Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England, Hillary Eklund Manuring Eden: Biological Conversions in Paradise Lost, David B. Goldstein Afterword, O'Dair Notes Bibliography About the Contributors Index"

Reviews

This first collection of essays to center on literary representations of soil makes contributions to both our sense of the historical context of early modern texts, and to our ecocritical theoretical repertoire, offering nine chapters that turn, exhume, overturn, and delve [into] sixteenth- and seventeenth-century materials in sharply insightful, often lyrical ways. -Chris Barrett, Renaissance Quarterly

Author Information

Hillary Eklund is associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans and the author of Literature and Moral Economy in the Early Modern Atlantic: Elegant Insufficiencies.

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