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"""In this exciting new work, [Bladen] establishes further perceptions, making the concept of ‘arboreal aesthetics’ her basis for a fresh approach to deeper cultural understandings. Drawing attention to the phenomenon of the tree of life motif in both religious and secular understanding of the natural world, she examines diverse poetic forms, finding that aesthetic considerations embrace changing political realities through the seventeenth century. Victoria Bladen has provided us with an elegant and important contribution to the Routledge series ‘World Literature and the Environment’."" -- Christopher Wortham, The University of Western Australia, Parergon 39.2 (2022)"

""In this exciting new work, [Bladen] establishes further perceptions, making the concept of ‘arboreal aesthetics’ her basis for a fresh approach to deeper cultural understandings. Drawing attention to the phenomenon of the tree of life motif in both religious and secular understanding of the natural world, she examines diverse poetic forms, finding that aesthetic considerations embrace changing political realities through the seventeenth century. Victoria Bladen has provided us with an elegant and important contribution to the Routledge series ‘World Literature and the Environment’."" -- Christopher Wortham, The University of Western Australia, Parergon 39.2 (2022)

In this exciting new work, [Bladen] establishes further perceptions, making the concept of 'arboreal aesthetics' her basis for a fresh approach to deeper cultural understandings. Drawing attention to the phenomenon of the tree of life motif in both religious and secular understanding of the natural world, she examines diverse poetic forms, finding that aesthetic considerations embrace changing political realities through the seventeenth century. Victoria Bladen has provided us with an elegant and important contribution to the Routledge series 'World Literature and the Environment'. -- Christopher Wortham, The University of Western Australia, Parergon 39.2 (2022)

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Victoria Bladen teaches in literary studies and adaptation at The University of Queensland, Australia and has twice received a Faculty Teaching Award. Her publications include six Shakespearean text guides in the Insight (Melbourne) series, including The Merchant of Venice (2020) and Much Ado About Nothing (2019), and five co-edited volumes, including Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (2019), Shakespeare and the Supernatural (2020), and a special issue of Australian Literary Studies on Afterlives of Pastoral (2015).

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