Ecofeminist approaches to early modernity / edited by Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munroe, Jennifer.

Laroche, Rebecca

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Literatures, cultures, and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Nature in literature.

Landscapes in literature.

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Popular.

Ecofeminism.

Feminist literary criticism.

Women and the environment--England--History--17th century.

Women and the environment.

History.

England--Intellectual life--17th century.

England.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xvii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

By focusing on various forms of "dialogue," these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening in order to illuminate ways that early modern English women interacted with their natural surroundings. The emphasis on dialogue brings ecocritics, feminists, and ecofeminists into conversation and offers fruitful new insights. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Rethinking the Familiar: The Woman-Nature Connection

1 N/nature and the Difference "She" Makes / Lynne Dickson Bruckner Bruckner, Lynne Dickson 15

2 First "Mother of Science": Milton's Eve, Knowledge, and Nature / Jennifer Munroe Munroe, Jennifer 37

3 Ecofeminist Eve: Artists Reading Milton's Heroine / Wendy Furman-Adams Furman-Adams, Wendy, Virginia James Tufte Tufte, Virginia James 55

2 Rethinking Early Modern Domestic Practice

4 On Elizabeth Isham's "Oil of Swallows": Animal Slaughter and Early Modern Women's Medical Recipes / Michelle DiMeo DiMeo, Michelle, Rebecca Laroche Laroche, Rebecca 87

5 Woolley's Mouse: Early Modern Recipe Books and the Uses of Nature / David Goldstein Goldstein, David 105

6 Preserving Nature in Hannah Woolley's The Queen-Like Closet; or Rich Cabinet / Amy L. Tigner Tigner, Amy L. 129

3 Rethinking the Landscape

7 "Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers": The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham's My Booke of Rememberance / Hillary M. Nunn Nunn, Hillary M. 153

8 The Secrets of Grafting in Wrath's Urania / Vin Nardizzi Nardizzi, Vin, Miriam Jacobson Jacobson, Miriam 175

9 Language "like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass": Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague / Emily Bowles Bowles, Emily 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780230115125

0230115128

OCLC:

716070076