Estok, Simon C.. Ecocriticism and Shakespeare : reading ecophobia

Folger bibliographic ID: 245696
Folger call number: PR3039 .E88 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312460

"This book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of "Nature" in Shakespeare"--Provided by publisher

Edition

1st ed

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare * Dramatizing Environmental Fear: King Lear's Unpredictable Natural Spaces and Domestic Places * Coriolanus and ecocriticism: a study in confluent theorizing * Pushing the limits of ecocriticism: environment and social resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV * Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: race, gender, and ecophobia * Disgust, metaphor, women: ecophobic confluences * Staging exotica and ecophobia * The ecocritical unconscious: early modern sleep as "go-between" * Coda: ecocriticism on the lip of a lion

Extended title: Ecocriticism and Shakespeare : reading ecophobia / Simon C. Estok

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Ecocriticism Nature in literature Human ecology in literature LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare NATURE / Ecology LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance

author: Estok, Simon C.
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616