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Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination
Av Heide Estes
Häftad, 2025
805 kr
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Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived …
Cold Tyranny and the Demonic North of Early Modern England
Häftad, 2025
805 kr
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The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were among the worst years of the Little Ice Age. This volume attends to English texts from this period to trace associations between wintry physical landscapes and an icy inner landscape of human cruelty and tyranny whose rigors promote the ultimate …
Early Modern Écologies
Beyond English Ecocriticism
Av Pauline Goul
Häftad, 2025
805 kr
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Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of humans as being ‘masters and possessors of Nature’ in the seventeenth century, the writers taken up in …
Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives
Excavating the Environmental Conflicts of the Iberian Globalization
Häftad, 2026
805 kr
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How are the environmental conflicts of our time intertwined with the legacies of Spanish imperialism and early modern globalization? In Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavating the Environmental Conflicts of the Iberian Globalization, Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo argues that …
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging
Häftad, 2025
700 kr
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Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle’s works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. Though many ancient, medieval, and early modern Europeans relied on these works to understand and explore the relationships between water and earth, sixteenth-century Europeans particularly were …
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa
Häftad, 2026
721 kr
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This book deals with peoples’ practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, and indifference in the relationships established with aquatic environments …
Old English Ecotheology
The Exeter Book
Häftad, 2025
805 kr
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Old English Ecotheology examines the impact of environmental crises on early medieval English theology and poetry. Like their modern counterparts, theologians at the turn of the first millennium understood the interconnectedness of the Earth community, and affirmed the independent subjectivity of …
Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination
Häftad, 2025
805 kr
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Writing on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references at least 180 plants in his works and makes countless allusions to horticultural and botanical practices. Shakespeare’s Botanical Imagination moves plants to the foreground of …
Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature
Häftad, 2025
805 kr
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The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature tracks an important shift in early modern conceptions of selfhood, arguing that the period hosted the birth of a new subset of the human, the eco-self, which melds a deeply introspective turn with an abiding sense of humans’ embedment in the world. A …
Environmental Legacy of War on the Hungarian-Ottoman Frontier, c. 1540-1690
Av András Vadas
Häftad, 2025
721 kr
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This book is the first monographic attempt to follow the environmental changes that took place in the frontier zone of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the one hand, it looks at how the Ottoman–Hungarian wars affected the landscapes of the …
Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature
Av Nicholas Helms, Steve Mentz
Häftad, 2025
805 kr
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Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. Water and especially oceanic spaces have been central to recent trends in the …
Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives
Excavating the Environmental Conflicts of the Iberian Globalization
Inbunden, 2024
1875 kr
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Drawing on early modern Iberian, Indigenous, and European sources, the book interrogates how early modern debates regarding war, free trade, abundance, property, race, sovereignty, and history were deeply entwined within ideas and theories driving the relationship between humans and the environment.
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination
Av Heide Estes
Inbunden, 2017
2327 kr
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Examining Old English texts, Heide Estes shows how Anglo-Saxon ideologies, which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.
Early Modern Écologies
Beyond English Ecocriticism
Inbunden, 2020
2327 kr
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Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature.
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
Redefining the Universe through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging
Inbunden, 2020
2114 kr
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Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. This book investigates why 16th century Europeans were so interested in water's failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been.
Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination
Inbunden, 2023
2315 kr
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This collection of essays moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative ways that scholars are expanding the discussion of plants and botany in Shakespeare's writings
Old English Ecotheology
The Exeter Book
Inbunden, 2021
2327 kr
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This is the first monograph systematically to apply modern principles of ecotheology to early medieval literature and religious texts.
Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature
Av Nicholas Helms, Steve Mentz
Inbunden, 2024
2327 kr
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Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both.
Environmental Legacy of War on the Hungarian-Ottoman Frontier, c. 1540-1690
Av András Vadas
Inbunden, 2023
2188 kr
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This book is the first monographic attempt to follow the environmental changes that took place in the frontier zone of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa
Inbunden, 2023
2188 kr
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This book deals with peoples' practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, and indifference in the relationships established with aquatic environments …
Cold Tyranny and the Demonic North of Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2024
2327 kr
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The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were among the worst years of the Little Ice Age. This volume attends to English texts from this period to trace associations between wintry physical landscapes and an icy inner landscape of human cruelty and tyranny whose rigors promote the ultimate …
Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature
Inbunden, 2023
2327 kr
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Through analysis of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Cavendish, the author reveals how this reconceptualized selfhood offered ecological benefits by valuing human rational capacities while maintaining environmental connection.
