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Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation
- Title
- Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation / Jeffrey S. Theis.
- Author
- Theis, Jeffrey S.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 368 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Series Statement
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Subjects
- Ecology in literature
- Forests in literature
- Environmentalism > England > History > 16th century
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Environmentalism > England > History > 17th century
- Environmentalism in literature
- Ecocriticism
- Pastoral literature, English > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-3019
- ISBN
- 9780820704234 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0820704237 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009046462
- OCLC
- YBP 2009046462
- Author
- Theis, Jeffrey S.
- Title
- Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation / Jeffrey S. Theis.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2009.
- Series
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studiesMedieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-3019