Ecocriticism and Shakespeare Reading Ecophobia [Hardcover]

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.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

Winner of the Writing in the Humanities Book Award from the National Research Foundation, Korea (2011)!

'For those of us who turn to him for intellectual provocation, this book is a more-than-welcome contribution to Shakespeare scholarship, to ecocriticism, and to critical theory.' - Dan Brayton, Middlebury College, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment

'Ecophobia' has already begun to gain currency, making Estok the first early modernist to have a perceptible impact on ecocriticism. This alone would make Ecocriticism and Shakespeare a milestone work, setting aside its other considerable merits. It balances the claims of historicism and presentism, activism and theoretical integrity more deftly than previous studies. It unearths fresh or unsung categories in Shakespearean criticism such as environmental fear, disgust, and sleep. It dares those who teach Shakespeare to practice an activist pedagogy that engages students in environmental politics. - Early Modern Literary Studies

In this thorough and original study, Estok widens the scope of ecological critlÓ+