Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination / Vin Nardizzi, Tiffany Jo Werth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nardizzi, Vin, Editor.

Werth, Tiffany Jo, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

European literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Medieval.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practice what Ursula K. Heise calls "eco-cosmopolitanism," a method that imagines forms of local environmentalism as a defense against the interventions of open-market global networks. It also expands the idea's possibilities and identifies its limitations through critical studies of premodern texts, artefacts, and environmental history. The essays connect real environments and their imaginative (re)creations and affirm the urgency of reorienting humanity's responsiveness to, and responsibility for, the historical links between human and non-human existence. The discussion of ways in which meditation on scholarly place and time can deepen ecocritical work offers an innovative and engaging approach that will appeal to both ecocritics generally and to medieval and early modern scholars"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Preface: Environment reading: Premodern literature in its places / Robert Allen Rouse

Introduction: Oecologies: Engaging the world, from here / Vin Nardizzi, Tiffany Jo Werth

The love of life: Reading Sir Gawain and the green knight close to home / Jeffrey J. Cohen

Backyard / Patricia Badir

Bold riparian schemes: Imagining water and the hydrosocial cycle across time and space / Louise Noble

Distemperature in A midsummer night's dream / Sarah Crover

Biodynamic viticulture, natural wine, and the premodern / Frances E. Dolan

Sustainability / Louisa Mackenzie

Consuming debt / Sharon O'Dair

Failure / David K. Coley

A singular world: The perils and possibilities of the bird's-eye view / Sandra Young

Liquids and solids: Indigeneity as capricious matter in William Colenso's colonial encounters / Scott R. MacKenzie

Ruined medievalism / David Matthews

Tangled history: Nature, nation, and Canadian neomedievalism / J. Allan Mitchell

Afterword: Environmentalism, eco-cosmopolitanism and premodern thought / Ursula K. Heise.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-1953-2

1-4875-1952-4

OCLC:

1091899474