What Else Is Pastoral? : : Renaissance Literature and the Environment /

What Else Is Pastoral? : : Renaissance Literature and the Environment / / Ken Hiltner.

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Pastoral was one of the most popular literary forms of early modern England. Inspired by classical and Italian Renaissance antecedents, writers from Ben Jonson to John Beaumont and Abraham Cowley wrote in idealized terms about the English countryside. It is often argued that the Renaissance pastoral...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Hiltner, Ken,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Literary Issues
  • 1. The Nature of Art
  • 2. What Else Is Pastoral?
  • 3. What Else Was Pastoral in the Renaissance?
  • 4. Pastoral and Ideology, and the Environment
  • Part II. Environmental Problems
  • 5. Representing Air Pollution in Early Modern London
  • 6. Environmental Protest Literature of the Renaissance
  • 7. Empire, the Environment, and the Growth of Georgic
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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