Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how early modern warfare unsettled ideas of the human yet ultimately contributed to, and was then perpetuated by, anthropocentrism.
Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how early modern warfare unsettled ideas of the human yet ultimately contributed to, and was then perpetuated by, anthropocentrism.
Benjamin Bertram is Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA. His publications include articles in the Routledge Handbook on Shakespeare and Animals (forthcoming), Modern Philology, English Literature, Exemplaria, and Boundary 2. His first book, The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England, was published in 2004.
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Erasmus and the Dung Beetle or, Human Exceptionalism and Its Discontents Chapter 2 Machiavelli, Virtù, and the Ecology of War Chapter 3 Iron Men: Thomas Digges, A Larum for London, and the Elizabethan Cyborg Chapter 4 War and Resilience: Tamburlaine the Great and the Anglo-Spanish War Chapter 5 Bestial Oblivion in Shakespeare's Hamlet Chapter 6 Thomas Coryate, the Lousy Humanist Chapter 7 Humanity Under Siege: Francis Bacon's Human Empire and the Capitalocene Author Index Subject Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Erasmus and the Dung Beetle or, Human Exceptionalism and Its Discontents Chapter 2 Machiavelli, Virtù, and the Ecology of War Chapter 3 Iron Men: Thomas Digges, A Larum for London, and the Elizabethan Cyborg Chapter 4 War and Resilience: Tamburlaine the Great and the Anglo-Spanish War Chapter 5 Bestial Oblivion in Shakespeare's Hamlet Chapter 6 Thomas Coryate, the Lousy Humanist Chapter 7 Humanity Under Siege: Francis Bacon's Human Empire and the Capitalocene Author Index Subject Index
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