{"product_id":"anglo-saxon-literary-landscapes-ecotheory-and-the-environmental-imagination-9789089649447","title":"Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJudith\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as descriptions of natural events from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAnglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling case for the medieval world as a profitable site for further exploration by ecocritical and ecofeminist theorists.\" - Renée R. Trilling, \u003ci\u003eMedieval Feminist Forum\u003c\/i\u003e Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Volume 54, Number 2, 2019 \"This book is one of the most important to come out this year, as it is not only one which articulates interesting and important nuances about Old English literature, but it is also an activist-minded piece which raises significant questions about our present anthropocentric lives and the state of the medieval field. Thus, in her analysis of the sea in Beowulf, saints’ lives, and biblical epics, Estes draws parallels between Anglo-Saxon notions of the sea as a limitless resource with presentday hyperconsumerist treatment of the environment, and her discussion of Guthlac’s appropriation of the fenland wilderness compares it with colonialist ideologies which justified invasion and enslavement as processes civilizing wilderness regions.\" - Eric Lacey and Simon Thomson, \u003ci\u003eThe Year's Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, Volume 98, Issue 1, 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: Introduction 2: Imagining the Sea in Secular and Religious Poetry 3: Ruined Landscapes 4: Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness 5: Animal Natures 6: Objects and Hyperobjects 7: Conclusion: Ecologies of the Past and the Future","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473180430679,"sku":"9789089649447","price":101.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789089649447.jpg?v=1744905618","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anglo-saxon-literary-landscapes-ecotheory-and-the-environmental-imagination-9789089649447","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}