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Title:

Ground-work : English Renaissance literature and soil science / edited by Hillary Eklund.

Publisher:

Duquesne University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Soil and civilization.
Ecocriticism.
Literature and science--England--History--16th century.
Literature and science--England--History--17th century.
Ecocriticism.
English literature--Early modern.
Literature and science.
Nature in literature.
Soil and civilization.
England.
1500-1700
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Eklund, Hillary Caroline, 1977- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Toward a Renaissance Soil Science / Hillary Eklund -- Compost/Composition / Frances E. Dolan -- Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral / Tamsin Badcoe -- Visions of Soil and Body Management: The Almanac in Richard II / Bonnie Lander Johnson -- Unsoiled Soil and "Fleshly Slime": Representations of Reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity / Lindsay Ann Reid -- Groping Golgotha: Soil Improvement in the Towneley and Chester Shepherds' Plays / Rob Wakeman -- Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil / Keith M. Botelho -- Fertility versus Firepower: Shakespeare's Contested Soil Ecologies / Randall Martin -- Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England / Hillary Eklund -- Manuring Eden: Biological Conversions in Paradise Lost / David B. Goldstein -- Afterword / Sharon O'Dait.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

ISBN:

0820704997
9780820704999

OCLC:

(OCoLC)968345804

LCCN:

2016051408

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)