{"product_id":"back-to-nature-9780812220223","title":"Back to Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBack to Nature\u003c\/i\u003e is demanding, at times dizzying, in its range and boldness, the all-encompassing and often surprising nature of its conjunctions. . . . Sections of the book amount to the most powerful and wide-ranging 'green' reading of early modern literature that has yet emerged.\" * Jonathan Bate, University of Warwick *\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most impressive works of scholarship I have encountered in three decades of reading such material. To observe the skill with which the author applies his extraordinary mind to the interrelations of similar but not obviously connected ideas is alternately thrilling and humbling.\" * Russ McDonald, University of North Carolina, Greensboro *\u003cbr\u003e\"Productively wide-ranging, yet well focused in scope, Watson's book illuminates multiple issues of current interest in Renaissance studies, including representations of nature and reality, the quest for truth, the body, game hunting, colonialism, the new science, religion, and language in readings of canonical writers. . . . This book of the Renaissance struggle to reconcile desire for 'human mastery with love for the natural world' should be ready by all who teach Renaissance literature and by specialists in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century literature.\" * \u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405696573783,"sku":"9780812220223","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812220223.jpg?v=1730493311","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/back-to-nature-9780812220223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}