Slow Shakespeare : an eco-critique of "method" in early modern literary studies / Sharon O'Dair -- Mute timber? Fiscal forestry and environmental stichomythia in the Old Arcadia / Todd Andrew Borlik -- Defining nature through monstrosity in Othello and Macbeth / Georgia Brown -- Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare / Simon C. Estok -- How to do things with animals : thoughts on/with the early modern cat / Karen Raber -- Utopian ecocriticism : naturalizing nature in Thomas More's Utopia / Ivo Kamps and Melissa L. Smith -- Summer's lease : Shakespeare in the little ice age / Robert Markley -- Anima-tion at Little Gidding : thoughtful inconsistency as ecological ethos in an early modern Bible harmony / Nicholas Johnson -- An ecocritical evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex / Millie Gimmel -- Meditation on the creatures : ecoliterary uses of an ancient tradition / John Gatta -- The pomology of Eden : apple culture and early New England poetry / Michael Ziser -- Delight is a slave to dominion : awakening to empire with Richard Ligon's History / Anthony Lioi -- "The archeologists made observations that conjured up interesting mental pictures" : De Soto, narrative scholarship, and place / Thomas Hallock -- Imagining the forest : longleaf pine ecosystems in Spanish and English writings of the southeast, 1542-1709 / E. Thomson Shields, Jr. -- Would Thomas More have wanted to go to Mars? Colonial promotion and bio-power / Timothy Sweet