Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)

Annotation The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Slow Shakespeare: an Eco-Critique of “Method” in Early Modern Literary Studies....Pages 11-30 Mute Timber?: Fiscal Forestry and Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia ....Pages 31-53 Defining Nature Through Monstrosity in Othello and Macbeth ....Pages 55-76 Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare....Pages 77-91 How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat....Pages 93-113 Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More’s Utopia ....Pages 115-129 Summer’s Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age....Pages 131-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Thoughtful Inconsistency as Ecological Ethos in an Early Modern Bible Harmony....Pages 145-165 An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex....Pages 167-180 Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition....Pages 181-192 Front Matter....Pages 217-217 The Pomology of Eden: Apple Culture and Early New England Poetry....Pages 193-215 Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon’s History ....Pages 219-233 “The Archeologists Made Observations That Conjured Up Interesting Mental Pictures”: De Soto, Narrative Scholarship, and Place....Pages 235-249 Imagining the Forest: Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Spanish and English Writings of the Southeast, 1542–1709....Pages 251-268 Would Thomas More Have Wanted to Go to Mars? Colonial Promotion and Bio-Power....Pages 269-289 Back Matter....Pages 291-298 The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully weds the two disciplines.