Ecocriticism and Shakespeare
Subtitle: reading ecophobia
By: Simon C. Estok
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Literatures, cultures, and the environment; Literatures, cultures and the environment
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780230112568
Subjects: Natural history; Ecocriticism; Knowledge; Human ecology in literature; Nature in literature
Description: "This book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of "Nature" in Shakespeare"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare: an introduction; title: Dramatizing environmental fear: King Lear's unpredictable natural spaces and domestic places; title: Coriolanus and ecocriticism: a study in confluent theorizing; title: Pushing the limits of ecocriticism: environment and social resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV; title: Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: race, gender, and ecophobia; title: Disgust, metaphor, women: ecophobic confluences; title: Staging exotica and ecophobia; title: The ecocritical unconscious: early modern sleep as "go-between"; title: Coda: ecocriticism on the lip of a lion.