Ground-work : English Renaissance literature and soil science

Folger bibliographic ID: 352294
Folger call number: PR428.N39 G76 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500920

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-283) and index

Contents

Introduction : toward a Renaissance soil science / Hillary Eklund -- Compost/composition / Frances E. Dolan -- Richard Carew and the matters of the littoral / Tamsin Badcoe -- Visions of soil and body management : the almanac in Richard II / Bonnie Lander Johnson -- Unsoiled soil and "fleshly slime" : representations of reproduction in Spenser's legend of chastity / Lindsay Ann Reid -- Groping Golgotha : soil improvement in the Towneley and Chester Shepherds' plays / Rob Wakeman -- Winstanley and postrevolutionary soil / Keith M. Botelho -- Fertility versus firepower : Shakespeare's contested soil ecologies / Randall Martin -- Wetlands reclamation and the fate of the local in seventeenth century England / Hillary Eklund -- Manuring Eden : biological conversions in Paradise lost / David B. Goldstein -- Afterword / Sharon O'Dair

Extended title: Ground-work : English Renaissance literature and soil science / edited by Hillary Eklund

English literature Nature in literature Soil and civilization Ecocriticism Literature and science England

editor: Eklund, Hillary Caroline, 1977-