Writing the forest in early modern England
Subtitle: a sylvan pastoral nation
By: Jeffrey S. Theis.
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820704234
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism; Ecology in literature; Forests in literature; Environmentalism in literature; Environmentalism -- England -- History -- 16th century; Environmentalism -- England -- History -- 17th century; Ecocriticism
Description: "An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of sylvan pastoral: literary form meets forest history; title: Shakespeare's green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it; title: Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night's dream and sylvan struggle; title: A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of windsor; title: Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms; title: Royalist woods; title: John Milton's sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual.