03151nam 2200565 450 991079511860332120230528195247.00-271-09352-80-271-09353-610.1515/9780271093529(MiAaPQ)EBC6801622(Au-PeEL)EBL6801622(CKB)19410568500041(DE-B1597)617260(DE-B1597)9780271093529(OCoLC)1301899348(MdBmJHUP)musev2_99727(OCoLC)1294427022(EXLCZ)991941056850004120230415d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGround-Work English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science /edited by Hillary EklundPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :Duquesne University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (305 pages)Medieval and Renaissance Literary StudiesPrint version: Eklund, Hillary Ground-Work University Park : Penn State University Press,c2017 9780820704999 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: --1. Compost/Composition --2. Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral --3. Visions of Soil and Body Management: --4. Unsoiled Soil and "Fleshly Slime": --5. Groping Golgotha: --6. Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil --7. Fertility versus Firepower: --8. Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England --9. Manuring Eden: --Afterword --Notes --Bibliography --About the Contributors --IndexHow does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now.Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.English literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismNature in literatureSoil and civilizationEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Nature in literature.Soil and civilization.820.9003Eklund Hillary Caroline1977-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795118603321Ground-Work3761221UNINA