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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2019
Print publication year:
2019
Online ISBN:
9781108224901
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108224901
Subjects:
Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
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Book description

Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral heritage and industrialized future. Carefully selected primary sources, each modernized and prefaced with an introduction, survey an encyclopaedic array of topographies, species, and topics: from astrology to zoology, bear-baiting to bee-keeping, coal-mining to tree-planting, fen-draining to sheep-whispering. The familiar voices of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marvell mingle with a diverse chorus of farmers, herbalists, shepherds, hunters, foresters, philosophers, sailors, sky-watchers, and duchesses - as well as ventriloquized beasts, trees, and rivers. Lavishly illustrated, the anthology is supported by a lucid introduction that outlines and intervenes in key debates in Renaissance ecocriticism, a reflective essay on ecocritical editing, a bibliography of further reading, and a timeline of environmental history and legislation drawing on extensive archival research.

Reviews

'A beautifully scholarly compendium … Nothing I've read in this year of climate catastrophe made me think more.'

Daniel Swift Source: The Spectator

'Borlick’s anthology is beautifully crafted, celebrates the wonders of nature, and warns of the dire consequences of the mistreatment of the natural world.'

Rachel White Source: The British Society for Literature and Science

‘… illustrates the rich diversity and complexity of English Renaissance thinking about the interrelationship between nature and humanity.’

B. E. Brandt Source: Choice

‘… a timely scholarly tool that will be indispensable to any new research on nature in early modern English writing.’

Goran Stanivukovic Source: Renaissance et Réforme

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