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Title:

Renaissance ecology : imagining Eden in Milton's England / edited by Ken Hiltner.

Publisher:

Duquesne University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xi, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Eden in literature.
Paradise in literature.
Nature in literature.
Milton, John,--1608-1674.--Paradise lost.

Other Authors:

Hiltner, Ken.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-341) and index.

Contents:

Happy rural seat of various view / Diane McColley. Eve and the language of love in Paradise lost / Stella P. Revard -- Walk in the paradise garden : Eve's influence in the "triptych" of speeches, Paradise lost 4.610-88 / Ann Torday Gulden -- Milton's Primavera / William Shullenberger -- Eve, Eden, and the flowers of experience : Milton, Blake, and botany / June Sturrock -- "Earth felt the wound" : gendered ecological consciousness in illustrations of Paradise lost / Wendy Furman-Adams and Virginia James Tufte -- Reading Milton greenly : the flight into Egypt in Renaissance art / Joan Blythe -- God's second book and the regenerate mind : some early modern conversion narratives / Alan Rudrum -- "Cropt by th' Almighties hand" : allegory as theodicy in Anne Bradstreet's poems on her grandchildren / Richard J. DuRocher -- "The purlieus of heaven" : Milton's Eden as a pastoral forest / Jeffrey S. Theis -- Eden raised : waste in Milton's garden / Karen L. Edwards -- Happy rural seat of various view / Diane McColley.

Summary:

"This collection of essays takes a 'green' approach to representations of Eden while also considering the role of gender, politics, and poetics, discussing relevant issues of both literature and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

ISBN:

0820704024 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780820704029 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2007040573

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)