Theis, Jeffrey S.. Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation

Folger bibliographic ID: 232267
Folger call number: PR438.E39 T47 2009
Folger holdings ID: 280716

"An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism"--Provided by publisher

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

The rise of sylvan pastoral: literary form meets forest history -- Shakespeare's green plot: the stage as forest and the forest as stage in As you like it -- Green plots and green plotters: A midsummer night's dream and sylvan struggle -- A border skirmish: community, deer poaching, and spatial transgression in The merry wives of Windsor -- Sylvan pastoral and the civil war: representing national trauma in sylvan terms -- Royalist woods -- John Milton's sylvan pastorals and the theatrical and godly individual

Extended title: Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation / Jeffrey S. Theis

English literature Pastoral literature, English Ecology in literature Forests in literature Environmentalism in literature Environmentalism Ecocriticism

author: Theis, Jeffrey S.