Gruber Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon

Rethinking Cosmopolis
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-85719-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has not been true of ecocriticism. This is partly because, until recently, most ecologically-minded writers have located the origins of ecological crisis in the Enlightenment, with the legacies of the Cartesian cogito singled out as a particular cause of our current woes. Traditionally, Renaissance writers were tacitly (or, occasionally, overtly) presumed to be oblivious of environmental degradation and unaware that the episteme—the conceptual edifice of their historical moment—was beginning to crack. This perception is beginning to change, and Dr. Guber's work is poised to illuminate the relatively small but burgeoning number of ecocritical studies devoted to this period, in particular, by showing how the classical concept of the cosmopolis, which posited the harmonious integration of the Order of Nature (cosmos) with the Order of Society (polis), was at once revived and also systematically dismantled in the Renaissance. Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Cosmopolis Unbound demonstrates that the Renaissance is the hinge, the crucial turning point in the human-nature relationship and examines the persisting ecological consequences of the nature-state’s demise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gruber, Elizabeth D.

Gruber, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter One: Richard III as Nature’s "Black Intelligencer"

Chapter Two: The Gravid Earth: Exploring the Ecological Imaginary in The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus

Chapter Three: The Problem of Indistinction in Measure for Measure and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Chapter Four: Vanitas and the Ecopolitics of Despair in Macbeth

Chapter Five: "Desolate Strangers": An Ecocritique of Vulnerability in The New Atlantis

Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

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