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Ecofeminist approaches to early modernity

Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their...

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Group Author: Munroe, Jennifer.; Laroche, Rebecca.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism > Early modern, 1500-1700.
Nature in literature.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Feminism & feminist theory.
Environmentalist thought & ideology.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137001900
Summary: Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230115125, 2011.
Carrier Form: 272 p.
ISBN: 9780230115125
9781137001900 :
1137001909 :
CLC: I561.064
Contents: Foreword-- M.O'Connor & S.Mendelson Introduction-- J.Munroe & R.Laroche PART I: RETHINKING THE FAMILIAR: THE WOMAN-NATURE CONNECTION Nature and the Difference 'She' Makes-- L.Bruckner First 'Mother of Science': Milton's Eve, Knowledge, and Nature-- J.Munroe Ecofeminist Eve: Illustrators Reading Milton's Heroine-- W.Furman-Adams PART II: RETHINKING THE 'ECOFEMINIST' IN EARLY MODERN DOMESTIC PRACTICE On the 'Oil of Swallows': Early Modern Women's Material Practice of Medicine and the Reliability of the Textual Record-- M.DiMeo & R.Laroche Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Hannah Woolley's Material Politics-- D.Goldstein Preserving Nature: in Hannah Woolley's The Queen-Like Closet-- or Rich Cabinet-- A.Tigner PART III: RE-THINKING/RE-READING THE LANDSCAPE 'Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers': The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham's Book of Remembrance-- H.Nunn Grafting and Graffiti in Wroth's Urania-- M.Jacobson & V.Nardizzi Language 'like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass': Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague-- E.Bowles Afterword-- R.Bushnell.

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