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.
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