Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination / Heide Estes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estes, Heide (Heide Ruth), author.

Series:

Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.

Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Landscapes in literature.

Ecology in literature.

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, UK : Arc Humanities Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for peoples actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as 'Beowulf' and 'Judith', as well as descriptions of natural events from the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.

Contents:

Introduction

Imagining the sea in secular and religious poetry

Ruined landscapes

Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness

Animal natures

Objects and hyperobjects

Conclusion: ecologies of the past and the future.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index.

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ISBN:

1-003-69085-8

1-04-079153-0

90-485-5140-4

90-485-2838-0

9781003690856

OCLC:

1163589731