Theis, Jeffrey S.
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2009.
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Part of the series Medieval & Renaissance literary studies;Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The rise of sylvan pastoral: literary form meets forest history — Shakespeare’s green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it — Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night’s dream and sylvan struggle — A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of Windsor — Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms — Royalist woods — John Milton’s sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual.
- An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify ‘sylvan pastoral’ as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism –Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
- English literature — Early modern, 1500-1700 — History and criticism.
- Pastoral literature, English — History and criticism.
- Ecology in literature.
- Forests in literature.
- Environmentalism in literature.
- Environmentalism — England — History — 16th century.
- Environmentalism — England — History — 17th century.
- Ecocriticism.
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