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Early Modern Ecostudies

From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Hallock

    1. University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA

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  2. Ivo Kamps

    1. University of Mississippi, USA

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  3. Karen L. Raber

    1. University of Mississippi, USA

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (EMCSS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Karen Raber, Thomas Hallock
      Pages 1-8

  3. Ecocriticism and Early Modern Europe: New Approaches, Maturing Disciplines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Slow Shakespeare: an Eco-Critique of “Method” in Early Modern Literary Studies

      • Sharon O’Dair
      Pages 11-30

    3. Mute Timber?: Fiscal Forestry and Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia

      • Todd Andrew Borlik
      Pages 31-53

    4. Defining Nature Through Monstrosity in Othello and Macbeth

      • Georgia Brown
      Pages 55-76

    5. Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare

      • Simon C. Estok
      Pages 77-91

    6. How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat

      • Karen Raber
      Pages 93-113

    7. Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More’s Utopia

      • Ivo Kamps, Melissa L. Smith
      Pages 115-129

    8. Summer’s Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age

      • Robert Markley
      Pages 131-142

  4. The Spirit and the Flesh: The Implications of Religion for Early Modern Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Thoughtful Inconsistency as Ecological Ethos in an Early Modern Bible Harmony

      • Nicholas Johnson
      Pages 145-165

    3. An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex

      • Millie Gimmel
      Pages 167-180

    4. Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition

      • John Gatta
      Pages 181-192
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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.

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'Sucha richly diverse book offers a sense of the range and promise of ecocriticism.' -Ecozon@

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA

    Thomas Hallock

  • University of Mississippi, USA

    Ivo Kamps, Karen L. Raber

About the editors

IVO KAMPS is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.
KAREN L. RABER is Professor of English, University of Mississippi, USA.
THOMAS HALLOCK is Assistant Professor of English, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA.

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