TY  - BOOK
AU  - Badcoe,Tamsin
AU  - Botelho,Keith M.
AU  - Dolan,Frances E.
AU  - Eklund,Hillary
AU  - Goldstein,David B.
AU  - Johnson,Bonnie Lander
AU  - Martin,Randall
AU  - O’Dair,Sharon
AU  - Reid,Lindsay Ann
AU  - Wakeman,Rob
TI  - Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science 
T2  - Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies
SN  - 9780271093529
AV  - PR428.N39 G76 2017eb
U1  - 820.9/36 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Ecocriticism
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - Soil and civilization
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: --; 1. Compost/Composition --; 2. Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral --; 3. Visions of Soil and Body Management: --; 4. Unsoiled Soil and “Fleshly Slime”: --; 5. Groping Golgotha: --; 6. Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil --; 7. Fertility versus Firepower: --; 8. Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England --; 9. Manuring Eden: --; Afterword --; Notes --; Bibliography --; About the Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that cultural practices developed in an adversarial relationship with natural processes. Moreover, these essays elucidate the links between humans and the lands they inhabit, both then and now
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271093529?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271093529
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271093529/original
ER  -