Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts - 9781472416728

Taylor & Francis

Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English TextsA Field Guide to Reading and Teaching\nAuthor(s): Jennifer Munroe, Edward J. Geisweidt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472416728, 978-1472416728\nSynopsis\nEcocriticism has steadily gained footing within the larger arena of early modern scholarship, and with the publication of well over a dozen monographs, essay collections, and special journal issues, literary studies looks increasingly green; yet the field lacks a straightforward, easy-to-use guide to do with reading and teaching early modern texts ecocritically. Accessible yet comprehensive, the cutting-edge collection Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts fills this gap. Organized around the notion of contact zones (or points of intersection, that have often been constructed asymmetrically-especially with regard to the human-nonhuman dichotomy), the volume reassesses current trends in ecocrit.