Early Modern Ecostudies

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Slow Shakespeare: an Eco-Critique of “Method” in Early Modern Literary Studies

Chapter 3 Mute Timber?: Fiscal Forestry and Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia

Chapter 4 Defining Nature Through Monstrosity in Othello and Macbeth

Chapter 5 Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare

Chapter 6 How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat

Chapter 7 Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More’s Utopia

Chapter 8 Summer’s Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age

Chapter 9 Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Thoughtful Inconsistency as Ecological Ethos in an Early Modern Bible Harmony

Chapter 10 An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex

Chapter 11 Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition

Chapter 12 The Pomology of Eden: Apple Culture and Early New England Poetry

Chapter 13 Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon’s History

Chapter 14 “The Archeologists Made Observations That Conjured Up Interesting Mental Pictures”: De Soto, Narrative Scholarship, and Place

Chapter 15 Imagining the Forest: Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Spanish and English Writings of the Southeast, 1542–1709

Chapter 16 Would Thomas More Have Wanted to Go to Mars? Colonial Promotion and Bio-Power