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Subtitle: The Green And the Real in the Late Renaissance
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780812239058
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Medieval; European - General; Literary Criticism; Nature; English; Europe; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Renaissance; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; History and criticism; Nature in literature; Pastoral literature, English
First sentence: This book is the offspring of two seemingly incompatible parents: one a desire to bring ecological advocacy into the realm of Renaissance literature (where it has usually been deemed irrelevant at best), the other a desire to articulate the intricate philosophical ironies of Shakespeare's As You Like It, Marvell's "Mower" poems, and seventeenth-century Dutch painting.