Ecocriticism and Shakespeare : reading ecophobia
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Ecocriticism and Shakespeare : reading ecophobia
(Literatures, cultures, and the environment)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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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"-- Provided by publisher
"First published in hardcover in 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan"--T.p. verso.
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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.
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
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