Title Ecocriticism and Shakespeare : reading ecophobia / Simon C. Estok

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource Series Literatures, cultures, and the environment Literatures, cultures, and the environment. Contents Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare * Dramatizing Environmental Fear: King Lear's Unpredictable Natural Spaces and Domestic Places * Coriolanus and Ecocriticism:€A Study in Confluent Theorizing * Pushing the Limits of Ecocriticism: Environment and Social Resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV * Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: Race, Gender, and Ecophobia * Disgust, Metaphor, Women: Ecophobic Confluences * Staging Exotica and Ecophobia * The Ecocritical Unconscious: Early Modern Sleep as "Go-Between" * Coda: Ecocriticism on the Lip of a Lion Machine generated contents note: -- Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare * Dramatizing Environmental Fear: King Lear's Unpredictable Natural Spaces and Domestic Places * Coriolanus and ecocriticism: a study in confluent theorizing * Pushing the limits of ecocriticism: environment and social resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV * Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: race, gender, and ecophobia * Disgust, metaphor, women: ecophobic confluences * Staging exotica and ecophobia * The ecocritical unconscious: early modern sleep as "go-between" * Coda: ecocriticism on the lip of a lion Summary "This book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of "Nature" in Shakespeare"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Natural history SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject Ecocriticism. Nature in literature. Human ecology in literature. Shakespeare studies & criticism -- English. The environment -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. NATURE -- Ecology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance. Literature. Ecocriticism Human ecology in literature Natural history Nature in literature Form Electronic book LC no. 2011005270 ISBN 9780230118744 0230118747 9781349294534 1349294535

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