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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert N Watson |
| ISBN: | 9780812220223 0812220226 0812239059 9780812239058 |
| OCLC Number: | 222270427 |
| Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 2006 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, from the editors of Studies in English Literature. Winner of Named 2005-2006 Best Book in Ecocriticism by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. |
| Description: | viii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Ecology, epistemology, and empiricism -- Theology, semiotics, and literature -- As you liken it : simile in the forest -- Shades of green : Marvell's garden and the mowers -- Metaphysical and cavalier styles of consciousness -- The retreat of God, the passions of nature, and the objects of Dutch painting -- Nature in two dimensions : perspective and presence in Ryckaert, Vermeer, and others -- Metal and flesh in The merchant of Venice : shining substitutes and approximate values -- Thomas Traherne : the world as present. |
| Responsibility: | Robert N. Watson. |
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"One of the most impressive works of scholarship I have encountered in three decades of reading such material. To observe the skill with which the author applies his extraordinary mind to the interrelations of similar but not obviously connected ideas is alternately thrilling and humbling."-Russ McDonald, University of North Carolina, Greensboro "Brilliant and stimulating. . . . Essential."-Choice "Productively wide-ranging, yet well focused in scope, Watson's book illuminates multiple issues of current interest in Renaissance studies, including representations of nature and reality, the quest for truth, the body, game hunting, colonialism, the new science, religion, and language in readings of canonical writers. . . . This book of the Renaissance struggle to reconcile desire for 'human mastery with love for the natural world' should be ready by all who teach Renaissance literature and by specialists in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century literature."-Sixteenth Century Journal "Back to Nature is demanding, at times dizzying, in its range and boldness, the all-encompassing and often surprising nature of its conjunctions. . . . Sections of the book amount to the most powerful and wide-ranging 'green' reading of early modern literature that has yet emerged."-Jonathan Bate, University of Warwick Read more...
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- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Nature in literature.
- Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism.
- Philosophy of nature in literature.
- Human ecology in literature.
- Renaissance -- England.
- Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Nature dans la littérature.
- Littérature pastorale anglaise -- Histoire et critique.
- Philosophie de la nature dans la littérature.
- Écologie humaine dans la littérature.
- Renaissance -- Angleterre.
- English literature -- Early modern.
- Pastoral literature, English.
- Renaissance.
- England.
- Natuur.
- Letterkunde.
- Engels.
- Protestantisme.
- English literature -- 16th and 17th centuries -- History and criticism.
