Research Catalog

Title

Premodern ecologies in the modern literary imagination / edited by Vin Nardizzi and Tiffany Jo Werth.

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nardizzi, Vincent Joseph, 1978-
• Werth, Tiffany Jo

Description

xv, 340 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--

Subjects

• 1450-1600
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Ecocriticism
• Literature, Medieval > Theory, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-315) and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- Preface: Environment reading: Premodern literature in its places / Robert Allen Rouse -- Introduction: Oecologies: Engaging the world, from here / Vin Nardizzi, Tiffany Jo Werth -- The love of life: Reading Sir Gawain and the green knight close to home / Jeffrey J. Cohen -- Backyard / Patricia Badir -- Bold riparian schemes: Imagining water and the hydrosocial cycle across time and space / Louise Noble -- Distemperature in A midsummer night's dream / Sarah Crover -- Biodynamic viticulture, natural wine, and the premodern / Frances E. Dolan -- Sustainability / Louisa Mackenzie -- Consuming debt / Sharon O'Dair -- Failure / David K. Coley -- A singular world: The perils and possibilities of the bird's-eye view / Sandra Young -- Liquids and solids: Indigeneity as capricious matter in William Colenso's colonial encounters / Scott R. MacKenzie -- Ruined medievalism / David Matthews -- Tangled history: Nature, nation, and Canadian neomedievalism / J. Allan Mitchell -- Afterword: Environmentalism, eco-cosmopolitanism and premodern thought / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 19-9715

ISBN

• 9781487504144
• 1487504144

OCLC

1065730718

Title

Premodern ecologies in the modern literary imagination / edited by Vin Nardizzi and Tiffany Jo Werth.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-315) and index.

Chronological Term

1450-1600

Added Author

Nardizzi, Vincent Joseph, 1978- editor.

Werth, Tiffany Jo, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-9715