Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation / Jeffrey S. Theis.
2009
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Title
Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation / Jeffrey S. Theis.
Created/published
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, ©2009.
Description
xv, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The rise of sylvan pastoral: literary form meets forest history
Shakespeare's green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it
Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night's dream and sylvan struggle
A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of Windsor
Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms
Royalist woods
John Milton's sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual.
Shakespeare's green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it
Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night's dream and sylvan struggle
A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of Windsor
Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms
Royalist woods
John Milton's sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual.
Series
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- Pennsylvania.
Call number
PR438.E39 T47 2009