Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity [electronic resource] /
Munroe, J.editor.
Laroche, R.editor.
Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Sylvia Bowerbank (1947- 2005); Introduction: In Dialogue with Nature: New Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity; 1 Rethinking the Familiar: The Woman- Nature Connection; 1 N/nature and the Difference "She" Makes; 2 First "Mother of Science": Milton's Eve, Knowledge, and Nature; 3 Ecofeminist Eve: Artists Reading Milton's Heroine; 2 Rethinking Early Modern Domestic Practice; 4 On Elizabeth Isham's "Oil of Swallows": Animal Slaughter and Early Modern Women's Medical Recipes
5 Woolley's Mouse: Early Modern Recipe Books and the Uses of Nature6 Preserving Nature in Hannah Woolley's The Queen- Like Closet;  or Rich Cabinet; 3 Rethinking the Landscape; 7 "Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers": The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham's My Booke of Rememberance; 8 The Secrets of Grafting in Wroth's Urania; 9 Language "like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass": Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings.
Literature, Modern.
Sociology.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Feminist theory.
Environment.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Gender Studies.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Feminism.
Environment, general.