Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : ecotheory and the environmental imagination
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : ecotheory and the environmental imagination
（Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures, 1）
Amsterdam University Press, c2017
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-204) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf and Judith, as well as descriptions of natural events from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.
Table of Contents
1: Introduction 2: Imagining the Sea in Secular and Religious Poetry 3: Ruined Landscapes 4: Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness 5: Animal Natures 6: Objects and Hyperobjects 7: Conclusion: Ecologies of the Past and the Future
by "Nielsen BookData"