Overview
Traces of shipwreckecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne and also insermons, tales of survival, and diaries of seventeenth-century English sailors.Offering the first ecocritical account of early modern shipwreck narratives, ShipwreckModernity reveals the surprisingly modern truths to be found in these earlystories of ecological collapse.
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Author: Steve Mentz
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9780816691067
ISBN 10: 0816691061
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 10 December 2015
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Mentz has shaped an account that looks poised to become a key ecocritical text in the years to come. --Glasgow Review of Books
A compelling, provocative, even lyrical piece of scholarship that will undoubtedly inaugurate new critical discussions in the fields of maritime humanities, eco-criticism, early modern English literature, and shipwreck studies. -Josiah Blackmore, Harvard University Mentz has shaped an account that looks poised to become a key ecocritical text in the years to come. -Glasgow Review of Books Steve Mentz offers close and careful readings of early modern texts that are contextualized and scholarly, but also politically engaged. -The Sixteenth Century Journal This is a remarkable and valuable scholarly work that offers much beyond its analysis of early modern texts and histories. -Renaissance Quarterly A thoughtful exploration of the modalities of how and why culinary practices and tastes changed over time. -Comitatus 48 Shipwreck Modernity offers useful challenges to early modernists to re- think our periodization schemes, to environmental historians to more fully consider the ocean, and to all readers to ponder how to stay afloat amidst our ecological crises. -Journal of Early Modern History
A compelling, provocative, even lyrical piece of scholarship that will undoubtedly inaugurate new critical discussions in the fields of maritime humanities, eco-criticism, early modern English literature, and shipwreck studies. Josiah Blackmore, Harvard University
Author Information
Steve Mentz is professor of English at St John's University in New York City. He is author of At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean and Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction.
