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04502aam a2200421 i 4500 001 9D71871AFC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 230810t20232023ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023037668 020 $a 0226830179 020 $a 9780226830179 020 $a 0226830160 020 $a 9780226830162 035 $a (OCoLC)1373011084 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d AUM $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR275.E59 $b J66 2023 082 00 $a 820.9/001 $2 23/eng/20230830 100 1 $a Johnson, Eleanor, $d 1979- $e author. 245 10 $a Waste and the wasters : $b poetry and ecosystemic thought in medieval England / $c Eleanor Johnson. 246 30 $a Poetry and ecosystemic thought in medieval England 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 220 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Eleanor Johnson corrects some commonly held (mis)assumptions concerning what the average medieval English person might've thought about what we now call the natural environment or the ecosystem. Reading both well-studied fourteenth- and fifteenth-century works (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and the Canterbury Tales), and lesser-known ones (Winner and Waster and Mum and the Sothsegger), as well as legal and municipal documents, sermons, moral and penitential tracts, practical and medical guides, plague narratives, and historical chronicles from the period, Johnson describes how poets used the resources of poetic language-meter, rhyme, alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, characterization, plot, dramatic staging, repetition, and other literary devices-to think and feel their way into the problems of ecological peril, even though they lacked the science and scientific vocabulary we have today. Johnson explores how these writers combined multiple discourses from their particular, if narrow, vantage point to comment on ecological disasters, inventing their own "ecosystemic" language and commentary. As Johnson reminds us, the English Middle Ages had their share of environmental problems-air pollution, soil depletion, deforestation, Little Ice Ages, famines, and plagues-similar to the ones we face in the twenty-first century. Focusing on the word "waste" in its original usage across various texts, ranging from the literary to the legal, from the theological to the psychological, Johnson puts twenty-first-century concerned citizens in touch with kindred spirits in medieval England, fully aware of-and interested in-how human (mis)behavior might be connected to the natural world; how resource allocation, use, and pollution by one person might affect another; how environmental damage was linked to urbanization; and how one person's choices might affect the next generation. The book will be read primarily by those interested in medieval English literature, medieval historians, and literary scholars working in later periods, but Johnson also invites conversation with anyone working more broadly in the environmental humanities today"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Thinking and Talking Ecosystemically -- The Five Disasters Facing Medieval Ecosystems -- The Laws of Waste: The Bible and the Common Law -- Waste in Sermons and Penitential Manuals: The Unjust Steward -- Winner and Waster: The Imperilment of the Land -- Wasters and Workers in Piers Plowman: Famine and Food Insecurity -- Chaucer's Yeoman's Wasting Body: Pollution and Contagion -- The Wasted Lands of the Green Knight, and the Wasting of Camelot: Climate Change, Climate Revenge -- Gardens, Bees, and Wastours: Political Waste and the Fantasy of Sustainability -- Aftermath: From Wasting to Waste Matter. 648 7 $a 1100-1500 $2 fast 650 0 $a English literature $y Middle English, 1100-1500 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Environmental degradation in literature. 650 0 $a Climatic changes in literature. 650 7 $a Climatic changes in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902821 650 7 $a English literature $x Middle English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710961 650 7 $a Environmental degradation in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903131 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240417024326.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D71871AFC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search