Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages) : illustrations |
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Literatures, cultures, and the environment |
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Literatures, cultures, and the environment.
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Contents |
Foreword; M.O'Connor & S. Mendelson -- Introduction; J. Munroe & R. Laroche -- PART I: RETHINKING THE FAMILIAR: THE WOMAN-NATURE CONNECTION -- Nature and the Difference 'She' Makes; L. Bruckner -- First 'Mother of Science': Milton's Eve, Knowledge, and Nature; J. Munroe -- Ecofeminist Eve: Illustrators Reading Milton's Heroine; W. Furman-Adams -- PART II: RETHINKING THE 'ECOFEMINIST' IN EARLY MODERN DOMESTIC PRACTICE -- On the 'Oil of Swallows': Early Modern Women's Material Practice of Medicine and the Reliability of the Textual Record; M. DiMeo & R. Laroche -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Hannah Woolley's Material Politics; D. Goldstein -- Preserving Nature: in Hannah Woolley's The Queen-Like Closet; or Rich Cabinet; A. Tigner -- PART III: RE-THINKING/RE-READING THE LANDSCAPE -- 'Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers': The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham's Book of Remembrance; H. Nunn -- Grafting and Graffiti in Wroth's Urania; M. Jacobson & V. Nardizzi -- Language 'like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass': Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague;E. Bowles -- Afterword; R. Bushnell |
Summary |
Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue, ' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Nature in literature.
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Landscapes in literature.
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Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800
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Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800
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Ecofeminism.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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Women and the environment -- England -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Cooking, English
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Ecofeminism
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English literature -- Early modern
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English literature -- Women authors
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Feminist literary criticism
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Intellectual life
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Landscapes in literature
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Medicine, Popular
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Nature in literature
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Women and the environment
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Englisch
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Frau
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Literatur
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Ökologie
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Frauenliteratur.
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Englisch.
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Feminismus.
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Ecocriticism.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Women authors.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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Nature in literature.
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Landscape in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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SUBJECT |
England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302
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Subject |
England
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Englisch.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Munroe, Jennifer
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Laroche, Rebecca
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ISBN |
9781137001900 |
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1137001909 |
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