Elizabeth D. Gruber (Lock Haven University)

Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon

Rethinking Cosmopolis

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Produktbeschreibung

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), was at once revived and systematically dismantled in the Renaissance. This exciting new study 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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780415418867
• ISBN-10: 0415418860
• Artikelnr.: 48498314

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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"