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Premodern Ecologies explores how places, both local and global, shape scholarship on medieval and Renaissance English literature.

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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

Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 18/04/2019
      ISBN13: 9781487504144, 978-1487504144
      ISBN10: 1487504144
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Premodern Ecologies explores how places, both local and global, shape scholarship on medieval and Renaissance English literature.

      Table of Contents
      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

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