Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler by Marjorie Swann - 9780271095202

Environment, Society, and The Compleat AnglerAuthor(s): Marjorie Swann\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271095202, 978-0271095202\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1653, The Compleat Angler is one of the most influential environmental texts ever written. Addressing a politically and religiously polarized nation devastated by warfare, disease, ecological degradation, and climate change, Izaak Waltons famous fishing treatise stages a radical thought experiment: how might humanitys enhanced relationship with the natural world generate a new kind of sustainingand sustainablesocial order beyond the traditional boundaries of the church, the state, and the biological family?\n\nChallenging the current scholarly consensus that reads Waltons how-to manual as a conservative polemic camouflaged by fishlore, Marjorie Swann examines this richly complicated portrayal of the natural world throug.