- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 368 p.) : ill.
- 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
- Writing the forest in early modern England (Online)
- Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Alternative Title
- Writing the forest in early modern England (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2009046462
- OCLC
- ssj0000607883
- Author
Theis, Jeffrey S.
- Title
Writing the forest in early modern England [electronic resource] : a sylvan pastoral nation / Jeffrey S. Theis.
- Imprint
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2009.
- Series
Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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