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The poetics of angling in early modern England / Myra E. Wright.
Van Pelt Library PR438.F57 W75 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Myra E., author.
- Series:
- Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Fishing in literature.
- Fishes in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- English literature--Early modern.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Myra Wright takes ecocritical studies on an interdisciplinary turn toward the water with her new research monograph, The Poetics of Angling in Early Modern England. Identifying the lively presence of both literal and metaphorical images of sport fishing in all kinds of early modern writing, this book aims to instill deep sympathy between the art of angling and the art of writing, and for the centrality of fish in early modern conceptions of humanity." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Facing fish
- Home ecologies in the Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle
- Donne's fish biographies
- The fishing lines of John Dennys
- Shakespeare's angling devices in Antony and Cleopatra
- The interrupted aquatic hunt in Wroth's Urania
- The quickening of Walton's Incomplete Angler
- Conclusion: Killing and conservation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138304604
- 1138304603
- OCLC:
- 1085577898
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