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Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation
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"An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the...
"An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism"--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- Jeffrey S. Theis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xv, 368 pages :) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780820705057, 0820705055, 9780820704234, 0820704237
- OCLC
- ocn794700846
- OldControl:muse9780820705057.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The rise of sylvan pastoral: literary form meets forest history -- Shakespeare's green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it -- Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night's dream and sylvan struggle -- A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of Windsor -- Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms -- Royalist woods -- John Milton's sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual
Subjects
- Ecocriticism.
- Environmentalism -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Environmentalism -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Environmentalism in literature.
- Forests in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.