LEADER 04107nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910781351903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6124-3 010 $a0-8014-6076-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460760 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035316 035 $a(OCoLC)732957159 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468063 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324873 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510194 035 $a(PQKB)10367531 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138184 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28812 035 $a(DE-B1597)478301 035 $a(OCoLC)979968133 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460760 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138184 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468063 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL769569 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035316 100 $a20101016d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhat else is pastoral?$b[electronic resource] $eRenaissance literature and the environment /$fKen Hiltner 210 $aIthaca [N.Y.] $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4940-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe nature of art -- What else is pastoral? -- What else was pastoral in the Renaissance? -- Pastoral and ideology, and the environment -- Representing air pollution in early modern London -- Environmental protest literature of the Renaissance -- Empire, the environment, and the growth of georgic. 330 $aThe pastoral was one of the most popular literary forms of early modern England. Inspired by classical and Italian Renaissance antecedents, writers from Ben Jonson to John Beaumont and Abraham Cowley wrote in idealized terms about the English countryside. It is often argued that the Renaissance pastoral was a highly figurative mode of writing that had more to do with culture and politics than with the actual countryside of England. For decades now literary criticism has had it that in pastoral verse, hills and crags and moors were extolled for their metaphoric worth, rather than for their own qualities. In What Else Is Pastoral?, Ken Hiltner takes a fresh look at pastoral, offering an environmentally minded reading that reconnects the poems with literal landscapes, not just figurative ones.Considering the pastoral in literature from Virgil and Petrarch to Jonson and Milton, Hiltner proposes a new ecocritical approach to these texts. We only become truly aware of our environment, he explains, when its survival is threatened. As London expanded rapidly during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the city and surrounding rural landscapes began to look markedly different. Hiltner finds that Renaissance writers were acutely aware that the countryside they had known was being lost to air pollution, deforestation, and changing patterns of land use; their works suggest this new absence of nature through their appreciation for the scraps that remained in memory or in fact. A much-needed corrective to the prevailing interpretation of pastoral poetry, What Else Is Pastoral? shows the value of reading literature with an ecological eye. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPastoral literature, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aEcology in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPastoral literature, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNature in literature. 615 0$aEcology in literature. 676 $a820.9/358209734 686 $a18.05$2bcl 700 $aHiltner$b Ken$01469710 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781351903321 996 $aWhat else is pastoral$93771429 997 $aUNINA