Ecocriticism and Shakespeare Reading Ecophobia

by Estok, Simon C.

• ISBN13: 9780230112568
• ISBN10: 0230112560
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Simon C. Estok is an Associate Professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. He has published extensively on ecocriticism and Shakespeare in such journals as PMLA, Mosaic, Configurations, English Studies in Canada, ISLE, and others.

Table of Contents

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