Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-318) and index.
Contents:
Into the wood. Sex or matter? (Malabou after Spenser) -- Trauma in the age of wood (Spenser after Malabou) -- Interlude : The animal complaint -- What does nature want?. The oceanic feeling (Ralegh) -- Architectural anthropologies (Marvell) -- Queer life, unearthed (Milton) -- Conclusion: Toward wild psychoanalysis.
Summary:
"Introducing concepts from psychoanalysis as keys to understanding the force of early modern ecopoetics, Swarbrick urges literary critics and environmental scholars fluent in the new materialism to rethink notions of entanglement, animacy, and consciousness raising. Ultimately, he offers a provocative challenge to ecocriticism that, under the current regime of fossil capitalism in which everything solid interconnects, a new theory of disconnection is desperately needed"-- Provided by publisher.
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