Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England's Paradise

ISBN-13: 9781138257825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str.

Amy L. Tigner

Opis

Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity and national identity in early modern England. The book offers an original take on gardens by including medical and colonial discourse and by considering the perspective of ecocriticism.

Recenzje

'Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II contributes significantly to a dynamic new direction of studies in early modern writings about gardening and nature. It offers a fresh perspective through the lens of gender, ecocriticism, the history of the book, and political and cultural history, helping us to make sense of how people, and especially women, interacted with nature in early modern England.' Rebecca Bushnell, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens 'Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II makes a distinguished contribution to a historicist ecocriticism.' Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 'Overall, this book is especially strong in its close reading of literary and plimary texts. Tigner is always lucid and refreshingly direct in her organization and writing. She is an engaging and thoughtful guide to English literary and actual gardens, and she offers many fresh, local insights. ... This sound and thoughtful book will reward not only ecocritics but all early modern Iiterary scholars.' Milton Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction; The political garden: horticultural courtship; The untended garden: Shakespeare and the anti-paradise; The corporeal garden: masquerading in paradise; The colonial garden: collecting paradise; The revolutionary garden: Milton and early modern environmental thinking; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Amy L. Tigner is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington and is the founding editor of Early Modern Studies Journal (formerly Early English Studies).