RECENT ECOCRITICAL STUDIES OF ENGLISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

Author: raber, karen

Source: English Literary Renaissance, Volume 37, Number 1, February 2007 , pp. 151-171(21)

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Abstract:

Ecocriticism, the study of the relationship between literature and the natural world, has in recent decades made increasingly important contributions to earlier periods of literature, and has become a significant influence for scholars of the early modern world, despite specific challenges in reconstructing Renaissance ideas about nature, animals, and the environment. While a rich critical tradition in ecostudies of Shakespeare's works has evolved, there remains much untapped but promising material in the writings of other literary figures, including women writers of the period, and in discourses from and about the local and regional material conditions of early modern England's land, animals, plants, and environmental elements.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6757.2007.00097.x

Affiliations: 1: university of mississippi

Publication date: 2007-02-01