1. It asks not what ecological thought can do for early modern literature, but vice-versa. 2. It brings a specifically Francophone focus to the dialogue between
The book contains perceptions of nature and ecology in writings by English women authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Includes dis
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach h
The field of premodern environmental history (the study of the complex and ever-changing interrelationship between human beings and the world around them prior
Within early modern scholarship, ecocriticism has steadily gained footing, and early modern literary studies looks increasingly 'green'; yet the field lacks an