Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-315) and index.
Contents:
Index. Preface: Environmentalism, eco-cosmopolitanism and premodern thought / Ursula K. Heise -- Introduction: Oecologies: Engaging the world, from here / Vin Nardizzi, Tiffany Jo Werth -- The love of life: Reading Sir Gawain and the green knight close to home / Jeffrey J. Cohen -- Backyard / Patricia Badir -- Bold riparian schemes: Imagining water and the hydrosocial cycle across time and space / Louise Noble -- Distemperature in A midsummer night's dream / Sarah Crover -- Biodynamic viticulture, natural wine, and the premodern / Frances E. Dolan -- Sustainability / Louisa Mackenzie -- Consuming debt / Sharon O'Dair -- Failure / David K. Coley -- A singular world: The perils and possibilities of the bird's-eye view / Sandra Young -- Liquids and solids: Indigeneity as capricious matter in William Colenso's colonial encounters / Scott R. MacKenzie -- Ruined medievalism / David Matthews -- Tangled history: Nature, nation, and Canadian neomedievalism / J. Allan Mitchell -- Afterword: Environmentalism, eco-cosmopolitanism and premodern thought / Ursula K. Heise -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practice what Ursula K. Heise calls "eco-cosmopolitanism," a method that imagines forms of local environmentalism as a defense against the interventions of open-market global networks. It also expands the idea's possibilities and identifies its limitations through critical studies of premodern texts, artefacts, and environmental history. The essays connect real environments and their imaginative (re)creations and affirm the urgency of reorienting humanity's responsiveness to, and responsibility for, the historical links between human and non-human existence. The discussion of ways in which meditation on scholarly place and time can deepen ecocritical work offers an innovative and engaging approach that will appeal to both ecocritics generally and to medieval and early modern scholars."-- Provided by publisher.
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