This volume centers on the study of the relations between literature and the environment and poses important questions to an evolving field: why has ecocriticism focused on narrow, more recent historical periods? What has prevented or discouraged critics from extending environmentally-conscious readings further into the past, and what is lost as a consequence? Early Modern Ecostudies engages directly with such issues and advances a new practice that borrows from the methodologies of current ecocriticism, interrogates its problematic assumptions, and extends its reach and significance. Dealing with a range of subjects, these essays apply ecocritical methods to traditional authors such as Shakespeare, Sidney, More, and Milton; canonical texts such Edward Taylor's poetry and the Florentine Codex; and documents from the literature of discovery, medicine, and natural history.

Thomas Hallock is Assistant Professor of English at University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.

Ivo Kamps is a Professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

Karen Raber is a Professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Series Editor's Preface	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Early Modern Ecostudies	p. 1
Ecocriticism and Early Modern Europe: New Approaches, Maturing Disciplines
Slow Shakespeare: An Eco-Critique of "Method" in Early Modern Literary Studies	p. 11
Mute Timber?: Fiscal Forestry and Environmental Stichomythia in the Old Arcadia	p. 31
Defining Nature through Monstrosity in Othello and Macheth	p. 55
Doing Ecocriticism with Shakespeare	p. 77
How to Do Things with Animals: Thoughts on/with the Early Modern Cat	p. 93
Utopian Ecocriticism: Naturalizing Nature in Thomas More's Utopia	p. 115
Summer's Lease: Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age	p. 131
The Spirit and the Flesh: The Implications of Religion for Early Modern Nature
Anima-tion at Little Gidding: Thoughtful Inconsistency as Ecological Ethos in an Early Modern Bible Harmony	p. 145
An Ecocritical Evaluation of Book XI of the Florentine Codex	p. 167
Meditation on the Creatures: Ecoliterary Uses of an Ancient Tradition	p. 181
The Pomology of Eden: Apple Culture and Early New England Poetry	p. 193
Nature and Empire
Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon's History	p. 219
"The Archeologists Made Observations That Conjured Up Interesting Mental Pictures": De Soto, Narrative Scholarship, and Place	p. 235
Imagining the Forest: Longleaf Pine Ecosystems in Spanish and English Writings of the Southeast, 1542-1709	p. 251
Would Thomas More Have Wanted to Go to Mars? Colonial Promotion and Bio-Power	p. 269
Index	p. 291
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