Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking Cosmopolis

ISBN-13: 9780367886356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Elizabeth Gruber

Opis

Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Cosmopolis Unbound is poised to illuminate the relatively small but burgeoning number of ecocritical studies devoted to this period by showing how the classical concept of the cosmopolis, the harmonious integration of the Order of Nature (cosmos) with the Order of Society (polis)

Spis treści

Introduction: "The Making and Unmaking of Cosmopolis

Chapter One: "Nature’s ‘Black Intelligencer’": The Ecopolitics of Alienation in Richard III

Chapter Two: "Building the Necropolis: Killing Mother/Nature in The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus"

Chapter Three: "Nature on the Verge Confronting ‘Bare Life’ in Arden of Faversham and King Lear"

Chapter Four: "Vexing Pleasure: The Ecopolitics of Erotism in Measure for Measure and Tis Pity She’s a Whore"

Chapter Five: "Disenchanting Nature: Macbeth’s Anti-Green Epistemology"

Chapter Six: "‘Desolate Strangers’: Vulnerability and Despair in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis"

O autorze

Elizabeth Gruber is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Lock Haven University