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Ground-work : English Renaissance literature and soil science
Title
Ground-work : English Renaissance literature and soil science / edited by Hillary Eklund.
ISBN
9780820704999
0820704997
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2017]
Physical Description
viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 11, 2017
Series
Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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'Dait.
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