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  • Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance

    Volume 2, Concepts

    Edited by Keith Botelho, Joseph Campana ...
    Series series Animalibus
    Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provide new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance

    Volume 1, Insects

    Edited by Keith Botelho, Joseph Campana ...
    Series series Animalibus
    Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. Designed for the classroom, the book comprises two volumes—Insects and Concepts—that can be used together or independently. Each addresses the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • The Ephemeral History of Perfume

    Scent and Sense in Early Modern England

    by Holly Dugan ...
    In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Green Shakespeare

    From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism

    by Gabriel Egan ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare presents:an overview of the concept of ecocriticismdetailed ecocritical readings of Henry V, Macbeth, As You Like It, Antony & Cleopatra, King Lear, ... ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Fly

    by Steven Connor ...
    Series Book 16 - Animal
    Few creatures live in such close and intimate contact with human beings as flies. As ‘the constant, immemorial witnesses to the human comedy’, flies accompany human beings wherever they go, even beyond (or at least into) the grave. Almost one tenth of all the species known to science are flies.For centuries, flies have been seen as mankind's enemy, blamed for plagues, subject to public ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England

    Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture

    by Leah Knight ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight exposes and analyzes the close configuration of plants and writing in the period. She argues that the early modern cultures and cultivation of plants and books depended on each other in historically specific and novel ways that yielded a profusion of ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Becoming Human

    The Matter of the Medieval Child

    by J. Allan Mitchell ...
    Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things.A searching and provocative historical inquiry into ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment

    Gender, Sexuality, and Race

    Edited by Valerie Traub ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature

    Green Pastures

    by Todd A. Borlik ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • What Else Is Pastoral?

    Renaissance Literature and the Environment

    by Ken Hiltner ...
    Pastoral was one of the most popular literary forms of early modern England. Inspired by classical and Italian Renaissance antecedents, writers from Ben Jonson to John Beaumont and Abraham Cowley wrote in idealized terms about the English countryside. It is often argued that the Renaissance pastoral was a highly figurative mode of writing that had more to do with culture and politics than with the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

    Reading Ecophobia

    by Simon C. Estok ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Nature: An English Literary Heritage

    by Dr Marie Addyman ...
    What might it mean to study ideas of nature within our English literary heritage? In posing this question this volume invites us both to discover a diversity of ways of looking at a major continuing topos within English literature, and to ask what we mean by nature itself within this context. Starting from the premise of considering the pathetic fallacy which demands that nature reflects our ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD