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Literary Criticism Renaissance

Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination

edited by Vin Nardizzi & Tiffany Jo Werth

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2019
Category
Renaissance, 16th Century, 17th Century
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487504144
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $85.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487519537
    Publish Date
    Apr 2019
    List Price
    $85.00

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Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies."

 

The collection strives to practice what Ursula K. Heise calls "eco-cosmopolitanism," a method that imagines forms of local environmentalism as a defense against the interventions of open-market global networks. It also expands the idea’s possibilities and identifies its limitations through critical studies of premodern texts, artefacts, and environmental history. The essays connect real environments and their imaginative (re)creations and affirm the urgency of reorienting humanity’s responsiveness to, and responsibility for, the historical links between human and non-human existence.

 

The discussion of ways in which meditation on scholarly place and time can deepen ecocritical work offers an innovative and engaging approach that will appeal to both ecocritics generally and to medieval and early modern scholars.

About the authors

Vin Nardizzi is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

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Tiffany Jo Werth is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Davis.

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