Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination / / ed. by Vin Nardizzi, Tiffany Jo Werth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• MitwirkendeR: Badir, Patricia,; Cohen, Jeffrey J.,; Coley, David K.,; Crover, Sarah,; Dolan, Frances E.,; Heise, Ursula K.,; MacKenzie, Scott R,; Mackenzie, Louisa,; Matthews, David,; Mitchell, J. Allan,; Nardizzi, Vin,; Noble, Louise,; O'Dair, Sharon,; Rouse, Robert Allen,; Werth, Tiffany Jo,; Young, Sandra,
• HerausgeberIn: Nardizzi, Vin,; Werth, Tiffany Jo ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practice what...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Illustrations
• Preface. Environmental Reading: Premodern Literature in Its Places
• Introduction. Oecologies: Engaging the World, from Here
• 1. The Love of Life: Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Close to Home
• 2. Backyard
• 3. Bold Riparian Schemes: Imagining Water and the Hydrosocial Cycle across Time and Space
• 4. Distemperature in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 5. Biodynamic Viticulture, Natural Wine, and the Premodern
• 6. Sustainability
• 7. Consuming Debt
• 8. Failure
• 9. A Singular World: The Perils and Possibilities of the Bird's-Eye View
• 10. Liquids and Solids: Indigeneity as Capricious Matter in William Colenso's Colonial Encounters
• 11. Ruined Medievalism
• 12. Tangled History: Nature, Nation, and Canadian Neomedievalism
• Afterword: Environmentalism, Eco-Cosmopolitanism, and Premodern Thought
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index